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Malagasy vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Malagasy


Countries

Countries
Madagascar  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available  
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Merina  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
17
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Western Malagasy  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Sakalava  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
24
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Not Available  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
2  
2
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
Not Available  
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.28 %  
40
Not Available  

Native Speakers
18.00 million  
38
1.20 million  
99+

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
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Malagasy people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
c. 650  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Austronesian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indonesian  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
standard Malagasy  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
84  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
mg  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mlg  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mlg  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mlg  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mala1537  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject  
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Language Morphological Typology
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Malagasy and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Malagasy vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Malagasy and Tibetan language. History of Malagasy language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Malagasy and Tibetan Language History.

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Malagasy 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 Malagasy and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malagasy and Tibetan language. Malagasy word for "Hello" is Salama! or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Malagasy Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Malagasy vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Malagasy vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malagasy 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 Malagasy and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malagasy and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malagasy is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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