Countries
China, Nepal
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
takk
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
god natt
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
god kveld
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
god morgen
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Vær så snill
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
unnskyld
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ha det
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
China
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
619
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Norsk
French Name
tibétain
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Tibetisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Norwegians
Origin
c. 650
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
nor
ISO 639 2/B
tib
nor
ISO 639 3
bod
nor
ISO 639 6
bod
nor
Glottocode
tibe1272
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional