Countries
India, Nepal
China, Nepal
National Language
India, Nepal
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
- 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.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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How Many Consonants
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
pranam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
kripaya
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
maf karai
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Alavidā
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
kripaya
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
North India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khortha
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
maithili
tibétain
German Name
Maithili
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Maithil
tibetan people
Origin
14th century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mait1250
tibe1272
Linguasphere
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Maithili and Tibetan 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 Maithili and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Tibetan language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Maithili vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Maithili and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
