Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Nepal
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
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Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Pekal
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Musi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malais
tibétain
German Name
Malaiisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
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Ethnicity
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tibetan people
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
stan1306
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Tibetan language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.