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
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German and English Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Dutch-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)
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Limburgian
Where They Speak
China
Belgium, Netherlands
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
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 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
Tibetan and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Dutch language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Dutch Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.