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Tibetan vs Indonesian


Indonesian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Indonesia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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
Not Available   
Malay and Dutch Languages   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
19   
9

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
7   
6

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Sundanese   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
38,000,000.00   
8

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Balinese   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
3,300,000.00   
17

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Minangkabau   

Where They Speak
China   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
6,000,000.00   
7

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
46   
30

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
163.00 million   
11

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.16 %   
14

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
23.00 million   
34

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
140.00 million   
4

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   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Indonesians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
7th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indonesian   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Malay   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Indonesian   

Language Position
Not Available   
56   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
id   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ind   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ind   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ind   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
indo1316   

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   
Agglutinative   

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Tibetan and Indonesian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Indonesian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Indonesian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Indonesian language states that this language originated in 7th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Indonesian Language History.

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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.

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