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Tibetan vs Madurese


Madurese vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

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  
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.
  
  • There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
  • Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Malay and Javanese Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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.  
Not Available  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Nyuwun pangapunten  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Not Available  

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Kangean  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
110,000.00  
40

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Bawean  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Bangkalan  

Where They Speak
China  
Indonesia  

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+
15.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.23 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
15.00 million  
40

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
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Madurese  

History

Origin
c. 650  
Not Available  

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  
Madurese  

Language Position
Not Available  
69  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data Available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mad  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mad  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mad  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
madu1247  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Madurese Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Madurese language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Madurese language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Madurese language states that this language originated in Not Available. 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 Madurese Language History.

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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.

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