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
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Denmark
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
China
Island of Bornholm
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
dani1284
Linguasphere
No data Available
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Tibetan and Danish 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 Tibetan and Danish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Danish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Danish word for "Thank You" is Mange tak. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Danish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Danish Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Danish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Danish 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 Tibetan and Danish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Danish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Danish time required is 24 weeks.