Countries
Madagascar
China, Nepal
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
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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
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sakalava
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Amdo Tibetan
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
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
mala1537
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
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Language Morphological Typology
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Malagasy and Tibetan 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 Malagasy and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malagasy and Tibetan language. Malagasy word for "Hello" is Salama! or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Malagasy Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malagasy vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Malagasy vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malagasy Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Malagasy and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malagasy and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malagasy is 30 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.