Countries
China, Nepal
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-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)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
sorry
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
tibétain
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic