Countries
China, Nepal
Norway
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
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Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-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)
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Sogn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
China
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
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
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
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.