Countries
India, Nepal
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
- 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.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2230
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
kripaya
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
maf karai
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Alavidā
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
kripaya
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
North India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
China
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
156
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
32.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.41 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
27.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
maithili
tibétain
German Name
Maithili
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Maithil
tibetan people
Origin
14th century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mai
tib
ISO 639 3
mai
bod
ISO 639 6
mai
bod
Glottocode
mait1250
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-