Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
- 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 and Javanese 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
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 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
tolong
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Pamit
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
Kangean
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
110,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bawean
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bangkalan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.23 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Madurese
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
madourais
tibétain
German Name
Maduresisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[madura]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Madurese
tibetan people
Origin
8th Century 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
Madurese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
6929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Madurese Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mad
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mad
tib
ISO 639 3
mad
bod
ISO 639 6
-
bod
Glottocode
madu1247
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-