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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.