Countries
China, Nepal
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
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.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
China
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
33
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
tibétain
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Malayali
  
Origin
c. 650
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic