Countries
China, Nepal
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Indonesia, Island of Madura
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
Similar To
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Malay and Javanese Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Madurese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Halo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Sugeng énjing
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
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I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kangean
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bawean
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bangkalan
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Madurese
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
French Name
tibétain
madourais
German Name
Tibetisch
Maduresisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Madurese
Origin
c. 650
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Madurese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
madu1247
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Madurese 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 Tibetan and Madurese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Madurese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Madurese Dialects are spoken in different Madurese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Madurese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Madurese dialects include: Kangean , Bawean. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Madurese Speaking population
Tibetan and Madurese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Madurese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Madurese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Madurese language is 0.23 %. 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 Tibetan and Madurese on Tibetan vs Madurese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Madurese Language Codes
Tibetan and Madurese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Madurese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.