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Madurese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Madurese


Countries

Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
2   
13

National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
  • Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
  
  • 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 and Javanese Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

Thank You
matur nuwun   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

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

Good Night
wengi sing apik   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Sugeng énjing   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Not Available   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Not Available   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kangean   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
110,000.00   
40
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Bawean   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Bangkalan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
15.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.23 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
15.00 million   
40
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Madurese   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
madourais   
tibétain   

German Name
Maduresisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Madurese   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
Not Available   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indonesian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Madurese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
69   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data Available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mad   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
mad   
tib   

ISO 639 3
mad   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
madu1247   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Madurese and Tibetan Speaking population

Madurese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Madurese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Madurese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Madurese language is 0.23 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Madurese and Tibetan on Madurese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Madurese and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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