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Tibetan and Malagasy


Malagasy and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Madagascar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

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.
  
  • Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
  • About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Salama!  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Misaotra  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Manao ahoana!  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Alina tsara  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Manao ahoana e  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Manao ahoana e  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Maraina tsara  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
azafady  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Miala tsiny  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Veloma!  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Tiako ianao.  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Azafady  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Eastern Malagasy  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Merina  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
5,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western Malagasy  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Sakalava  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
1,200,000.00  
24

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
China  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
2  
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
Not Available  

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.28 %  
40

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
18.00 million  
38

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Fiteny Malagasy  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Malagasy Sign Language  

French Name
tibétain  
malgache  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Malagassi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Malagasy people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Austronesian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indonesian  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
standard Malagasy  

Language Position
Not Available  
84  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
mg  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mlg  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mlg  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mlg  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
mala1537  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Verb-Object-Subject  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
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All Tibetan and Malagasy 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 Malagasy dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Malagasy language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Malagasy Dialects are spoken in different Malagasy speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Malagasy Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy , Western Malagasy. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Malagasy Speaking population

Tibetan and Malagasy speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Malagasy languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Malagasy Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 %. 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 Malagasy on Tibetan vs Malagasy where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Malagasy Language Codes

Tibetan and Malagasy language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Malagasy Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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