Countries
West Java
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
- 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 and Malay Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
40 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Nuhun
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Mangga
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Hapunten
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Punten
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Western dialect
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Banten
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern dialect
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bogor
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bandung
China
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
39.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Basa Sunda
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
soundanais
tibétain
German Name
Sundanesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
tibetan people
Origin
5th 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
Sundanese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sundanese Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
su
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sun
bod
ISO 639 2/B
sun
tib
ISO 639 3
sun
bod
ISO 639 6
sun
bod
Glottocode
sund1251
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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