Countries
China, Nepal
  
Madagascar
  
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 in
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Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
Not Available
  
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
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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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.