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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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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
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
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sogn
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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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)
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Ethnicity
Norwegians
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
norw1258
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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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.