1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Manipur
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Bengali
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Khurumjari
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Yamna nungaijare
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Athengba Ahing
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
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དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Nongale haugatl
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Chanbiduna
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Saobiganu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Chatcharage
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Eina nangbu nungsi
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
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དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Burma, Laos
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
273,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Meithei proper
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,250,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.50 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.50 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
মৈইতৈইলোন
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
Meithei people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Meithei
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Not Available
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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