Countries
China, Nepal
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Thailand
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
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Indonesian Language
Derived From
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Tamil Language
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)
Hai
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 khabar?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Selamat pagi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
sila
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)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Pekal
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Musi
Where They Speak
China
Indonesia
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
malais
German Name
Tibetisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
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[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1306
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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Agglutinative
Tibetan and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Malaysian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.