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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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
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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   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

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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