Countries
China, Nepal
Indonesia
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
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Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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.
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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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Arekan
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Javanese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
java1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
Tibetan and Javanese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Javanese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Javanese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Javanese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.