Countries
China, Nepal
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
God morgen
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Please
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Denmark
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
5.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
tibétain
  
danois
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Rigsdansk
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional