Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
China, Nepal
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
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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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
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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།
Dialect 1
Kangean
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Bawean
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Bangkalan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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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
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Ethnicity
Madurese
tibetan people
Origin
Not Available
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Madurese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data Available
bo
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
madu1247
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Madurese 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 Madurese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Madurese and Tibetan language. Madurese word for "Hello" is Halo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Madurese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Madurese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Madurese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Madurese 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 Madurese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Madurese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Madurese is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.