Countries
European Union, Malta
China, Nepal
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
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Qormi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malta
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malta
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
North Abric
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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
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
malt1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Maltese 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 Maltese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Tibetan language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Maltese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese 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 Maltese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.