1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
German and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hallo
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dankjewel
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
goedemorgen
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
alsjeblieft
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
sorry
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
vaarwel
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
pardon
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Nederlands
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
tibétain
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Dutch people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology