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Maori and Tibetan


Tibetan and Maori


Countries

Countries
New Zealand  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
New Zealand  
Nepal, Tibet  

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

Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Māori Language Commission  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
  • The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
  
  • 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
Tahitian Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
20  
2
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
10  
2
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Night pai  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
pai ahiahi  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Morning pai  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Tēnā  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Aroha mai  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
tukua ahau  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
South Island Māori  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
New Zealand  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
New Zealand  
Bhutan, China  

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

Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
New Zealand  
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?
0.18 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
0.18 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
te Reo Māori  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
maori  
tibétain  

German Name
Maori-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Māori people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1814  
c. 650  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Polynesian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Maori  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
mi  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mri  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mao  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mri  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
maor1246  
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
Not Available  
Not Available  

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

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Maori and Tibetan Speaking population

Maori and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maori and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Maori and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maori language is Not Available 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 Maori and Tibetan on Maori vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maori and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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