Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
- 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
Konkani Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kokan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Varhadi
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Khandesh
China
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
426
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
71.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.10 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
68.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
marathe
tibétain
German Name
Marathi
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
tibetan people
Origin
10th century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Marathi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mr
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mar
tib
ISO 639 3
mar
bod
ISO 639 6
mar
bod
Glottocode
mara1378
tibe1272
Linguasphere
omr
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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