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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
China
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mode1257
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data Available
Language Type
Historical
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Dutch and Tibetan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Dutch and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Tibetan language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Dutch vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Dutch and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.