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Tibetan and Malayalam


Malayalam and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Andaman and Nicobar Islands   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala   

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.
  
  • Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
  • Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
53   
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
15   
12

How Many Consonants
30   
20
41   
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Brahmic family and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
ഹലോ (halēā)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
നന്ദി (nandi)   

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
രാവിലെ (rāvile)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Judeo-Malayalam   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Israel, kerala   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Mappila   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
India   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Pandy Malayalam   

Where They Speak
China   
France, kerala   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
38.00 million   
33

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.57 %   
27

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
38.00 million   
26

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla   

French Name
tibétain   
malayalam   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Malayalam   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Malayali   

History

Origin
c. 650   
9th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early form   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Malayalam   

Language Position
Not Available   
29   
24

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ml   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
mal   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
mal   

ISO 639 3
bod   
mal   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
mala1464   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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

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Tibetan and Malayalam Speaking population

Tibetan and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. 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 Tibetan and Malayalam on Tibetan vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Malayalam Language Codes

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

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