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Javanese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Javanese


Countries

Countries
Indonesia   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Indonesia   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
  • 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

Thank You
matur nuwun   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

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

Good Night
wengi sing apik   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Sugeng énjing   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Not Available   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Pekalongan   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Cirebon   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Arekan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
16   
15
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
82.00 million   
19
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.25 %   
13
Not Available   

Native Speakers
76.00 million   
13
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
basa Jawa   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
javanais   
tibétain   

German Name
Javanisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
450 AD   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indonesian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Javanese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
11   
10
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
jv   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jav   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
jav   
tib   

ISO 639 3
jav   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
java1253   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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All Javanese 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 Javanese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Javanese and Tibetan Speaking population

Javanese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Javanese and Tibetan on Javanese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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