Countries
China, Nepal
Madagascar
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Salama!
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Misaotra
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Manao ahoana!
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Alina tsara
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Manao ahoana e
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Manao ahoana e
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Maraina tsara
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
azafady
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Miala tsiny
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Veloma!
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Tiako ianao.
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Azafady
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Malagasy
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Merina
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Malagasy
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Sakalava
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
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Where They Speak
China
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How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Fiteny Malagasy
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Malagasy Sign Language
French Name
tibétain
malgache
German Name
Tibetisch
Malagassi-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Malagasy people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Austronesian
Branch
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Indonesian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
standard Malagasy
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mala1537
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Verb-Object-Subject
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Malagasy Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Malagasy greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Malagasy language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Malagasy word for "Thank You" is Misaotra. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Malagasy Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Malagasy Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Malagasy difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Malagasy Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Malagasy are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Malagasy, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Malagasy time required is Not Available.