Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3547
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3022
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
pranam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Suprabhaat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
kripaya
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
maf karai
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Alavidā
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
kripaya
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
North India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khortha
Where They Speak
China
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
tibétain
maithili
German Name
Tibetisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Maithil
Origin
c. 650
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2940
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mai
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mai
ISO 639 3
bod
mai
ISO 639 6
bod
mai
Glottocode
tibe1272
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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