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
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.