Countries
Indonesia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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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
-
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
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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
matur nuwun
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།
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Cirebon
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arekan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
166
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
tibetan people
Origin
450 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
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
jav
bod
Glottocode
java1253
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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