Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
China, Nepal
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
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Varhadi
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Khandesh
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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]
Not Available
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
Not Available
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Marathi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mara1378
tibe1272
Linguasphere
omr
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Marathi 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 Marathi and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Marathi and Tibetan language. Marathi word for "Hello" is हॅलो (Hĕlō) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Marathi Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Marathi vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Marathi vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Marathi 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 Marathi and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Marathi and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Marathi is 4 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.