Countries
China, Nepal
Indonesia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Not Available
Malay language
Derived From
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Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Halo
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 kabar?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Selamat Pagi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
mohon Untuk
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)
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Permisi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Sundanese
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Balinese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia, Malaysia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
tibétain
indonésien
German Name
Tibetisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Indonesians
Origin
c. 650
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Indonesian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
indo1316
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
Tibetan and Indonesian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Indonesian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Indonesian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.