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Maori vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Maori and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Maori vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Maori and Tibetan language. History of Maori language states that this language originated in 1814 whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Maori and Tibetan Language History.

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Maori 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 Maori and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maori and Tibetan language. Maori word for "Hello" is Hello or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Maori Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Maori vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Maori vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maori 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 Maori and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maori and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maori is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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