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Malagasy and Tibetan


Tibetan and Malagasy


Countries

Countries
Madagascar  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
10
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Merina  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Western Malagasy  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Sakalava  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
-  
China  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
24
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
2  
2
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
25.00 million  
40
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.28 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
18.00 million  
38
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
18.00 million  
32
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
84  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

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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All Malagasy and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malagasy and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Malagasy and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malagasy are spoken in different Malagasy Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malagasy vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy, Western Malagasy. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Malagasy and Tibetan Speaking population

Malagasy and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malagasy and Tibetan on Malagasy vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Tibetan Language Codes

Malagasy and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malagasy and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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