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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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