Countries
China, Nepal
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Thailand
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hai
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 khabar?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Selamat pagi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
sila
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)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Pekal
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Musi
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
624
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
tibétain
malais
German Name
Tibetisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Malaysian people
Origin
c. 650
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2954
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
msa
ISO 639 2/B
tib
may
ISO 639 3
bod
zsm
ISO 639 6
bod
may
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative