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Tibetan and Indonesian


Countries

Countries
Indonesia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Indonesia  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Malay language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
19  
9
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
7  
6
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
13
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Terima kasih  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Apa kabar?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Selamat Malam  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Malam yang baik  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Selamat Pagi  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
mohon Untuk  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
maaf  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
Selamat tinggal  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Aku cinta kamu  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Sundanese  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00  
19
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Balinese  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Minangkabau  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia  
China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
34
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
46  
30
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million  
11
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %  
15
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
23.00 million  
34
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
140.00 million  
4
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Bahasa Melayu  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

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

French Name
indonésien  
tibétain  

German Name
Bahasa Indonesia  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Indonesians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
7th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indonesian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Malay  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Indonesian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
56  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
id  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ind  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
ind  
tib  

ISO 639 3
ind  
bod  

ISO 639 6
ind  
bod  

Glottocode
indo1316  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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All Indonesian and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Indonesian and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Indonesian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Indonesian are spoken in different Indonesian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Indonesian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Indonesian dialects include: Sundanese, Balinese. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Indonesian and Tibetan Speaking population

Indonesian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Indonesian and Tibetan on Indonesian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Indonesian and Tibetan Language Codes

Indonesian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Indonesian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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