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Tibetan and Javanese


Javanese 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   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic, Javanese, Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

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

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
matur nuwun   

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
wengi sing apik   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Sugeng sọnten   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Sugeng siang   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Sugeng énjing   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Not Available   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Nyuwun pangapunten   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Kepanggih malih benjang   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Kula tresna panjengan   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Pekalongan   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Cirebon   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Arekan   

Where They Speak
China   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
16   
15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
82.00 million   
19

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.25 %   
13

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
76.00 million   
13

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
basa Jawa   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Djawa, Jawa   

French Name
tibétain   
javanais   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Javanisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)   

History

Origin
c. 650   
450 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indonesian   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Javanese   

Language Position
Not Available   
11   
10

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
jv   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
jav   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
jav   

ISO 639 3
bod   
jav   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
java1253   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative   

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All Tibetan and Javanese 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 Javanese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Javanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Javanese Dialects are spoken in different Javanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Javanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan , Cirebon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Javanese Speaking population

Tibetan and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. 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 Javanese on Tibetan vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Javanese Language Codes

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

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