Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
terima kasih
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
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
Selamat Petang
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
sila
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
maaf
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
246
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
98.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malais
tibétain
German Name
Malaiisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
tibetan people
Origin
c. 683 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
5429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ms
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
bod
ISO 639 2/B
may
tib
ISO 639 3
zsm
bod
ISO 639 6
may
bod
Glottocode
stan1306
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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