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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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