Countries
Madagascar
China, Nepal
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
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
- 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.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
Salama!
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Misaotra
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Alina tsara
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
azafady
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Miala tsiny
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Veloma!
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Azafady
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Merina
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sakalava
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malgache
tibétain
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Malagasy people
tibetan people
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indonesian
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mala1537
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Malagasy and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malagasy and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Malagasy and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malagasy are spoken in different Malagasy Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malagasy vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy, Western Malagasy. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Malagasy and Tibetan Speaking population
Malagasy and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malagasy and Tibetan on Malagasy vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Malagasy and Tibetan Language Codes
Malagasy and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malagasy and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.