Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Malta
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
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Roman Languages
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malta
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not Present
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Maltese
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC-c
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
All Tibetan and Maltese 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 Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Maltese Speaking population
Tibetan and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. 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 Maltese on Tibetan vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Maltese Language Codes
Tibetan and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.