Countries
New Zealand
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
New Zealand
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
- 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
Tahitian Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Night pai
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Morning pai
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Tēnā
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Aroha mai
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
poroporoaki
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
China
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.18 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.18 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
te Reo Māori
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
maori
tibétain
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Māori people
tibetan people
Origin
1814
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Maori
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2629
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mi
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mao
tib
ISO 639 3
mri
bod
ISO 639 6
mri
bod
Glottocode
maor1246
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-