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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
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Swedish and Danish Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
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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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