Countries
Norway
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Norway
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-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
takk
  
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 natt
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
ha det
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
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