1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Salama!
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Misaotra
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Alina tsara
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
azafady
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Miala tsiny
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Veloma!
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Azafady
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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