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Maltese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Maltese


Countries

Countries
European Union, Malta   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Malta   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
  • 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
Western Arabic Dialects   
Not Available   

Derived From
Roman Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30   
12
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
24   
14
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Ħello   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Grazzi   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Kif int?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Jekk jogħġbok   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Skużani!   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Ċaw   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Skużi!   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Qormi   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Malta   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Żejtun   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Malta   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Not Present   
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?
0.52 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.52 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Malti   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Malti   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
maltais   
tibétain   

German Name
Maltesisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Maltese   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 1470   
c. 650   

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Semitic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
North Abric   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Maltese   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
mt   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mlt   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
mlt   
tib   

ISO 639 3
mlt   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
malt1254   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
12-AAC-c   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Not Available   

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

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Maltese and Tibetan Speaking population

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Maltese and Tibetan Language Codes

Maltese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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