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Tibetan vs Sundanese


Sundanese vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
West Java  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Indonesia  

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.
  
  • The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Madurese and Malay Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
Not Available  

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin, Sundanese  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Halo  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Nuhun  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Kumaha kabarna?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Wilujeng kulem  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Wilujeng wengi  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Wilujeng siang  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Wilujeng énjing  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Mangga  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Hapunten  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Wilujeng angkat  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Punten  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Western dialect  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Banten  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Northern dialect  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Bogor  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Priangan dialect  

Where They Speak
China  
Bandung  

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+
39.00 million  
32

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.57 %  
27

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
38.00 million  
26

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Priangan, Sunda  

French Name
tibétain  
soundanais  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Sundanesisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui  

History

Origin
c. 650  
5th century AD  

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  
Sundanese  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
su  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
sun  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
sun  

ISO 639 3
bod  
sun  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
sund1251  

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  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Sundanese Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Sundanese language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Sundanese language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Sundanese language states that this language originated in 5th century 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 Sundanese Language History.

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Tibetan and Sundanese 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 Sundanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Sundanese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Sundanese word for "Thank You" is Nuhun. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Sundanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Sundanese Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Sundanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Sundanese 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 Sundanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Sundanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Sundanese time required is Not Available.

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