Countries
China, Nepal
India, Manipur
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
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
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
Similar To
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Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Khurumjari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Yamna nungaijare
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Athengba Ahing
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Nongale haugatl
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chanbiduna
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Saobiganu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Chatcharage
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eina nangbu nungsi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Loi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burma, Laos
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Pangal
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meithei proper
Where They Speak
China
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
মৈইতৈইলোন
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
French Name
tibétain
Meithei
German Name
Tibetisch
Meithei
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Meithei people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Meithei
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mani1292
Linguasphere
No data Available
omp
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Meithei 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 Meithei dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Meithei language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Meithei Dialects are spoken in different Meithei speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Meithei Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Meithei dialects include: Loi , Pangal. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Meithei Speaking population
Tibetan and Meithei speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Meithei languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Meithei Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Meithei language is Not Available. 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 Meithei on Tibetan vs Meithei where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Meithei Language Codes
Tibetan and Meithei language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Meithei Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.