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Tibetan vs Danish


Danish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
20  
17

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

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)  
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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Scanian  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Sweden  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
80,000.00  
99+

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  

Code

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  

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Tibetan and Danish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Danish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Danish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Danish language states that this language originated in c. 1100 AD. 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 Tibetan and Danish Language History.

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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.

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