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Tibetan and Dutch


Dutch and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
6   
9

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

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

Alphabets
35   
17
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Gronings   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Netherlands   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
590,000.00   
32

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
7   
7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
28.00 million   
38

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.32 %   
38

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   

History

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   
48   
35

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Tibetan and Dutch Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Dutch dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Dutch language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Dutch Dialects are spoken in different Dutch speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Dutch Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Dutch dialects include: Gronings , Low Saxon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Dutch Speaking population

Tibetan and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Dutch on Tibetan vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Dutch Language Codes

Tibetan and Dutch language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Dutch Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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