Countries
China, Nepal
  
West Java
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Indonesia
  
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.
  
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin, Sundanese
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Nuhun
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Kumaha kabarna?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Wilujeng kulem
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Wilujeng wengi
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Wilujeng siang
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Wilujeng énjing
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Mangga
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Hapunten
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Wilujeng angkat
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Punten
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Western dialect
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Banten
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Northern dialect
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Bogor
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Priangan dialect
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Bandung
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Priangan, Sunda
  
French Name
tibétain
  
soundanais
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Sundanesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Origin
c. 650
  
5th century AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Sundanese
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
su
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
sun
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
sun
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
sun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
sund1251
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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