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Tibetan vs Norwegian


Norwegian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Norway   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Norway   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Europe, South America   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Nynorsk   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Norwegian Language Council   

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.
  
  • Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
  • Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Swedish and Danish Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
9   
6

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
4   
3

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)   
takk   

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 natt   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
god kveld   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
god ettermiddag   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
god morgen   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Vær så snill   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
unnskyld   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
ha det   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Jeg Elsker Deg   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
unnskyld meg   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Jamtlandic   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Jamtland,Harjedalen   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Sognamål   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Sogn   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Hallingmål-Valdris   

Where They Speak
China   
Hallingdal, Valdres   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
19   
17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
5.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
5.00 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Norsk   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Norsk   

French Name
tibétain   
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Nynorsk   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Norwegians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 1300 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Germanic   

Branch
Not Available   
Northern (Scandinavian)   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Nynorsk, Bokmål   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Norwegian   

Scope
Not Available   
Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
no   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
nor   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
nor   

ISO 639 3
bod   
nor   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
norw1258   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg   

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 Norwegian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Norwegian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Norwegian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 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 Norwegian Language History.

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Tibetan and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Norwegian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Norwegian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.

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