Countries
China, Nepal
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3041
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Mappila
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
China
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
tibétain
malayalam
German Name
Tibetisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Malayali
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Malayalam
Language Position
2929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mal
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mal
ISO 639 3
bod
mal
ISO 639 6
bod
mal
Glottocode
tibe1272
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic