Countries
China, Nepal
West Java
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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 Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Madurese and Malay Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin, Sundanese
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks40 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Halo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Nuhun
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumaha kabarna?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Wilujeng kulem
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wilujeng siang
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Wilujeng énjing
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mangga
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Hapunten
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Wilujeng angkat
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Punten
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Western dialect
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Banten
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0040,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern dialect
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bogor
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0040,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Priangan dialect
Where They Speak
China
Bandung
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0040,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million39.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Basa Sunda
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Priangan, Sunda
French Name
tibétain
soundanais
German Name
Tibetisch
Sundanesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Origin
c. 650
5th century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Sundanese
Language Position
2942
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Sundanese Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
su
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
sun
ISO 639 2/B
tib
sun
ISO 639 3
bod
sun
ISO 639 6
bod
sun
Glottocode
tibe1272
sund1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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