Countries
Countries
China, Nepal
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
New Zealand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tahitian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3520
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3010
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Night pai
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Morning pai
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Tēnā
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Aroha mai
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
poroporoaki
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
tukua ahau
Dialects
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
China
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.18 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.18 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
New Zealand Maori
French Name
tibétain
maori
German Name
Tibetisch
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Māori people
History
Origin
c. 650
1814
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Polynesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Maori
Language Position
2926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Maori Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bo
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mri
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mao
ISO 639 3
bod
mri
ISO 639 6
bod
mri
Glottocode
tibe1272
maor1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-