Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Nepal
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
- 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
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Mappila
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, kerala
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malayalam
tibétain
German Name
Malayalam
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Malayali
tibetan people
Origin
9th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early form
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Malayalam and Tibetan Speaking population
Malayalam and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % 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 Malayalam and Tibetan on Malayalam vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Malayalam and Tibetan Language Codes
Malayalam and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malayalam and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.