Countries
China, Nepal
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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
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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.
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
Similar To
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Malay and Javanese Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Halo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Sugeng énjing
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
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Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
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I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kangean
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bawean
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bangkalan
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Madurese
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
French Name
tibétain
madourais
German Name
Tibetisch
Maduresisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Madurese
Origin
c. 650
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Madurese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
madu1247
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Madurese 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 Madurese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Madurese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Madurese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Madurese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Madurese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Madurese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Madurese 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 Madurese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Madurese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Madurese time required is 44 weeks.