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Indonesian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Indonesian


Countries

Countries
Indonesia   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Indonesia   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Malay language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
19   
9
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
7   
6
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Halo   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Terima kasih   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Apa kabar?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Selamat Malam   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Malam yang baik   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Selamat Pagi   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
mohon Untuk   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
maaf   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Selamat tinggal   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Aku cinta kamu   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Permisi   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Sundanese   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00   
8
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Balinese   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00   
17
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Minangkabau   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia   
China   

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00   
7
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
46   
30
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million   
11
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %   
14
Not Available   

Native Speakers
23.00 million   
34
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
140.00 million   
4
Not Available   

Native Name
Bahasa Melayu   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
indonésien   
tibétain   

German Name
Bahasa Indonesia   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Indonesians   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
7th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indonesian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Malay   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Indonesian   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
56   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
id   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ind   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
ind   
tib   

ISO 639 3
ind   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
indo1316   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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Indonesian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Indonesian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Indonesian and Tibetan language. History of Indonesian language states that this language originated in 7th Century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Indonesian and Tibetan Language History.

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Indonesian and Tibetan 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 Indonesian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Tibetan language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Indonesian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Indonesian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Indonesian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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