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Tibetan and Malaysian


Malaysian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
24  
14

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
13

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Bengkulu  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
1,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Pekal  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Musi  

Where They Speak
China  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
3,100,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
24  
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
175.00 million  
10

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.16 %  
15

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
77.00 million  
12

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
98.00 million  
8

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  

History

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
29  
27
54  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Malaysian Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  

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

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Tibetan and Malaysian Speaking population

Tibetan and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian 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 Malaysian on Tibetan vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Malaysian Language Codes

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

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