Countries
New Zealand
China, Nepal
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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
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Ethnicity
Māori people
tibetan people
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Maori
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
maor1246
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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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.