1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
dankjewel
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
alsjeblieft
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
vaarwel
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
pardon
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology