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Norwegian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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  
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
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

Total No. Of Dialects
19  
17
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  

Code

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  
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Not Available  

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Norwegian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Norwegian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Norwegian and Tibetan language. History of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Norwegian and Tibetan Language History.

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Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Tibetan language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Norwegian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Norwegian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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