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Tibetan vs Malaysian


Malaysian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

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
Not Available  
Indonesian Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Tamil Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
24  
14

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Bengkulu  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
1,600,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Pekal  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
30,000.00  
40

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Musi  

Where They Speak
China  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
3,100,000.00  
11

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
24  
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
175.00 million  
10

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.16 %  
14

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
77.00 million  
12

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
98.00 million  
8

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Bahasa melayu  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Not Available  

French Name
tibétain  
malais  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Malaiisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Not Available  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 683 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Pluricentric Standard Malay  

Language Position
Not Available  
54  
39

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Malaysian Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ms  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
msa  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
may  

ISO 639 3
bod  
zsm  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
stan1306  

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  
Agglutinative  

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Tibetan and Malaysian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Malaysian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Malaysian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD. 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 Malaysian Language History.

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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.

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