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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
Not Available   
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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   
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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