1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Malay and Javanese Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
matur nuwun
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
piye kabare?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
wengi sing apik
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Not Available
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
110,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
15.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Madurese
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Madurese
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available