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Tibetan and Marathi


Marathi and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
16  
13

How Many Consonants
30  
20
36  
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
4 weeks  
2

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Maharashtrian Konkani  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Kokan  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
2,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Varhadi  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Vidarbha  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
7,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Khandeshi  

Where They Speak
China  
Khandesh  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,900,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
42  
29

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
71.00 million  
25

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.10 %  
19

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
68.00 million  
16

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
3.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
29  
27
17  
15

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System (ISS)  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  
omr  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Marathi Speaking population

Tibetan and Marathi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Marathi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Marathi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Marathi language is 1.10 %. 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 Marathi on Tibetan vs Marathi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Marathi Language Codes

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

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