Countries
Indonesia
China, Nepal
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
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Balinese
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
China
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
Origin
7th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Malay
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
indo1316
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Indonesian and Tibetan 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 Indonesian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Tibetan language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Indonesian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.