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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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