Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Please
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
dansk
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
danois
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available