Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
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Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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How Many Consonants
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
pranam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Suprabhaat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
kripaya
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
maf karai
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Alavidā
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
kripaya
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
North India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khortha
Where They Speak
China
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
tibétain
maithili
German Name
Tibetisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Maithil
Origin
c. 650
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Maithili
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Maithili 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 Tibetan and Maithili dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Maithili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Maithili Dialects are spoken in different Maithili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Maithili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat , Madhubani. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Maithili Speaking population
Tibetan and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Tibetan and Maithili on Tibetan vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Maithili Language Codes
Tibetan and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.