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Tibetan and Indonesian


Indonesian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Indonesia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Indonesia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
East Timor, Indonesia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Malay language  

Derived From
-  
Malay and Dutch Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
19  
9

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
7  
6

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Halo  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Terima kasih  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Apa kabar?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Selamat Malam  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Malam yang baik  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Selamat Sore  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Selamat Pagi  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
mohon Untuk  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
maaf  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Selamat tinggal  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Aku cinta kamu  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Permisi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Sundanese  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
38,000,000.00  
19

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Balinese  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
3,300,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Minangkabau  

Where They Speak
China  
Indonesia, Malaysia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
34

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
46  
30

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
163.00 million  
11

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.16 %  
15

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
23.00 million  
34

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
140.00 million  
4

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Bahasa Melayu  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Bahasa Indonesia  

French Name
tibétain  
indonésien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Bahasa Indonesia  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Indonesians  

History

Origin
c. 650  
7th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indonesian  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Malay  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Indonesian  

Language Position
29  
27
56  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
id  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
ind  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
ind  

ISO 639 3
bod  
ind  

ISO 639 6
bod  
ind  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
indo1316  

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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All Tibetan and Indonesian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Indonesian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Indonesian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Indonesian Dialects are spoken in different Indonesian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Indonesian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Indonesian dialects include: Sundanese , Balinese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Indonesian Speaking population

Tibetan and Indonesian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Indonesian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Indonesian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Indonesian on Tibetan vs Indonesian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Indonesian Language Codes

Tibetan and Indonesian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Indonesian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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