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Malaysian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Malaysian


Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

National Language
Malaysia   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Indonesia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Thailand   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
  • 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
Indonesian Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Tamil Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
24   
14
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
Apa khabar?   
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
Selamat Petang   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Please
sila   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
maaf   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bengkulu   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00   
25
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Pekal   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
40
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Musi   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
China   

How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00   
11
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
24   
20
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million   
10
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %   
14
Not Available   

Native Speakers
77.00 million   
12
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
98.00 million   
8
Not Available   

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

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
malais   
tibétain   

German Name
Malaiisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 683 AD   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
54   
39
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ms   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
msa   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
may   
tib   

ISO 639 3
zsm   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1306   
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
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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

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Malaysian and Tibetan Speaking population

Malaysian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % 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 Malaysian and Tibetan on Malaysian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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