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Tibetan and Malayalam


Malayalam and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
15  
12

How Many Consonants
30  
20
41  
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Brahmic family and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
38.00 million  
33

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.57 %  
27

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  

History

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  
29  
24

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

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  

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All Tibetan and Malayalam 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 Malayalam dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Malayalam language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Malayalam Dialects are spoken in different Malayalam speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Malayalam Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam , Mappila. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Malayalam Speaking population

Tibetan and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. 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 Malayalam on Tibetan vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Malayalam Language Codes

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