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Tibetan and Malaysian


Malaysian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Malaysia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Indonesia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Thailand   

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

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Indonesian Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Tamil Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
24   
14

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Selamat Malam   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Selamat Petang   

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

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
sila   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
maaf   

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Bengkulu   

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

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Pekal   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Indonesia   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Musi   

Where They Speak
China   
Indonesia   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
24   
20

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.16 %   
14

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
77.00 million   
12

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
98.00 million   
8

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

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

French Name
tibétain   
malais   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Malaiisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 683 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

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

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Pluricentric Standard Malay   

Language Position
Not Available   
54   
39

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Malaysian Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ms   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
msa   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
may   

ISO 639 3
bod   
zsm   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
stan1306   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative   

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

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Tibetan and Malaysian Speaking population

Tibetan and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on Tibetan vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Malaysian Language Codes

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

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