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Meithei and Tibetan


Tibetan and Meithei


Countries

Countries
India, Manipur  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
-  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
  • The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
  
  • 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
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Meithei-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
15  
5
30  
20

Scripts
Bengali  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Khurumjari  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Yamna nungaijare  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Athengba Ahing  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
মানিপুরি  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Nongale haugatl  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Chanbiduna  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Saobiganu  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
Chatcharage  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
দুঃখিত  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Loi  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burma, Laos  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Pangal  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
273,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meithei proper  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,250,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.01 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
Meithei  
tibétain  

German Name
Meithei  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmeɪteɪ]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Meithei people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1700  
c. 650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Meithei  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
38  
35
29  
27

Signed Forms
Meithei Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mni  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mni  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mni  
bod  

ISO 639 6
mni  
bod  

Glottocode
mani1292  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
omp  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Meithei 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 Meithei and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Meithei and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Meithei are spoken in different Meithei Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Meithei vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Meithei dialects include: Loi, Pangal. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Meithei and Tibetan Speaking population

Meithei and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Meithei and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Meithei and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Meithei language is 0.01 % 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 Meithei and Tibetan on Meithei vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Meithei and Tibetan Language Codes

Meithei and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Meithei and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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