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Tibetan and Maori


Maori and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
New Zealand   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
New Zealand   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Australia, Oceania   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Māori Language Commission   

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.
  
  • "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
  • The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Tahitian Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
20   
2

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
10   
2

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
E pēhea ana koe ?   

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
pai ahiahi   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Afternoon pai   

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Tēnā   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Aroha mai   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Aroha ahau ki a koe   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
South Island Māori   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
New Zealand   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Western North Island Maori   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
New Zealand   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Eastern North Island Maori   

Where They Speak
China   
New Zealand   

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+
0.18 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
0.18 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
te Reo Māori   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
New Zealand Maori   

French Name
tibétain   
maori   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Maori-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Māori people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1814   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Polynesian   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Maori   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
mi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
mri   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
mao   

ISO 639 3
bod   
mri   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
maor1246   

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   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Maori Speaking population

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Tibetan and Maori Language Codes

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

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