Countries
European Union, Malta
China, Nepal
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
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malta
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Not Present
Amdo Tibetan
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
malt1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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All Maltese 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 Maltese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Maltese and Tibetan Speaking population
Maltese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % 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 Maltese and Tibetan on Maltese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Tibetan Language Codes
Maltese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.