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
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
14th century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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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.