Countries
Madagascar
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
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
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
- 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
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salama!
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Misaotra
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Alina tsara
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
azafady
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Miala tsiny
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Veloma!
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Azafady
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Merina
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sakalava
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.28 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
18.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malgache
tibétain
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
tibetan people
Origin
1000 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indonesian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
8429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mg
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
tib
ISO 639 3
mlg
bod
ISO 639 6
mlg
bod
Glottocode
mala1537
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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