Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
- 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
Konkani Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kokan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00
  
23
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Varhadi
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00
  
12
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Khandeshi
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Khandesh
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million
  
25
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
68.00 million
  
16
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million
  
32
Not Available
  
Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
marathe
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Marathi
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Marathi people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
10th century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Marathi
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
mr
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mar
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
mar
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
mar
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mara1378
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
omr
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available