Countries
China, Nepal
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
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.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Konkani Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kokan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
China
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
642
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million71.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.10 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million68.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
tibétain
marathe
German Name
Tibetisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Marathi people
Origin
c. 650
10th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Marathi
Language Position
2917
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mar
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mar
ISO 639 3
bod
mar
ISO 639 6
bod
mar
Glottocode
tibe1272
mara1378
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-