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Tibetan and Sundanese


Sundanese and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
West Java  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
Not Available  

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin, Sundanese  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
39.00 million  
32

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.57 %  
27

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  

History

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  

Code

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  
Not Available  

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

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Tibetan and Sundanese Speaking population

Tibetan and Sundanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Sundanese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Sundanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sundanese language is 0.57 %. 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 Sundanese on Tibetan vs Sundanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Sundanese Language Codes

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

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