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Tibetan and Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
6   
9
2   
13

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

Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Netherlands   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
590,000.00   
32
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

Total No. Of Dialects
7   
7
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million   
38
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %   
38
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   

History

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
48   
35
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

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   

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All Dutch and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dutch and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Dutch and Tibetan Speaking population

Dutch and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Tibetan on Dutch vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Tibetan Language Codes

Dutch and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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