Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
- 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
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-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
dankjewel
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
sorry
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available