Countries
China, Nepal
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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.
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Malay and Javanese Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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.
tolong
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Pamit
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
Kangean
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00110,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bawean
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.008,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bangkalan
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.23 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million15.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million14.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Madurese
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
French Name
tibétain
madourais
German Name
Tibetisch
Maduresisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[madura]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Madurese
Origin
c. 650
8th 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
Madurese
Language Position
2969
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Madurese Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mad
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mad
ISO 639 3
bod
mad
ISO 639 6
bod
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Glottocode
tibe1272
madu1247
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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