Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Ħello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Grazzi
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kif int?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Skużani!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ċaw
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Qormi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not Present
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.52 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Malti
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Malti
French Name
tibétain
maltais
German Name
Tibetisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Maltese
Origin
c. 650
c. 1470
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Maltese
Language Position
2925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mlt
ISO 639 3
bod
mlt
ISO 639 6
bod
mlt
Glottocode
tibe1272
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic