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Malayalam and Tibetan


Tibetan and Malayalam


Countries

Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
53  
32
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
15  
12
5  
2

How Many Consonants
41  
30
30  
20

Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Israel, kerala  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Mappila  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
India  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
France, kerala  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
38.00 million  
33
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.57 %  
27
Not Available  

Native Speakers
38.00 million  
26
1.20 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
9th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Dravidian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early form  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Malayalam  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
29  
24
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
ml  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mal  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mal  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mal  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mala1464  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Not Available  

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All Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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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.

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