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Meithei vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Meithei


Countries

Countries
India, Manipur  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Meithei-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
15  
5
30  
20

Scripts
Bengali  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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
Not Available  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Not Available  
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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Loi  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burma, Laos  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Pangal  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
273,000.00  
32
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Meithei proper  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,250,000.00  
19
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

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
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Meithei people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1700  
c. 650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Meithei  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mni  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mni  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mni  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mani1292  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
omp  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Meithei and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Meithei vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Meithei and Tibetan language. History of Meithei language states that this language originated in 1700 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 Meithei and Tibetan Language History.

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

Meithei vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Meithei vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Meithei 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 Meithei and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Meithei and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Meithei is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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