Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
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Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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How Many Consonants
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
pranam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Suprabhaat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
kripaya
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
maf karai
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Alavidā
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
kripaya
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
North India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khortha
Where They Speak
China
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
tibétain
maithili
German Name
Tibetisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Maithil
Origin
c. 650
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Maithili
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mait1250
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Maithili Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Maithili language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Maithili Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Maithili Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.