Countries
European Union, Malta
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- 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
Western Arabic Dialects
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
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
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Grazzi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kif int?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Skużani!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Ċaw
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Qormi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malta
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malta
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Malti
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
maltais
tibétain
German Name
Maltesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Maltese
tibetan people
Origin
c. 1470
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mt
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
tib
ISO 639 3
mlt
bod
ISO 639 6
mlt
bod
Glottocode
malt1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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