Countries
India, Manipur
China, Nepal
National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
- 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
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Bengali
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Khurumjari
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Athengba Ahing
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
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དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Chanbiduna
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Saobiganu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Chatcharage
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
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དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Loi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Pangal
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China
Speaking Population
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Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
Meithei
tibétain
German Name
Meithei
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Meithei people
tibetan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mani1292
tibe1272
Linguasphere
omp
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Meithei 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 Meithei and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Meithei and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Meithei are spoken in different Meithei Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Meithei vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Meithei dialects include: Loi, Pangal. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Meithei and Tibetan Speaking population
Meithei and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Meithei and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Meithei and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Meithei 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 Meithei and Tibetan on Meithei vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Meithei and Tibetan Language Codes
Meithei and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Meithei and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.