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Tibetan vs Malagasy


Malagasy vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Madagascar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

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.
  
  • Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
  • About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Manao ahoana!  

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Manao ahoana e  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Manao ahoana e  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
azafady  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Miala tsiny  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Tiako ianao.  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Eastern Malagasy  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Merina  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
5,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western Malagasy  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Sakalava  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
1,200,000.00  
24

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
China  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
2  
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
Not Available  

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.28 %  
40

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
18.00 million  
38

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Fiteny Malagasy  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Malagasy Sign Language  

French Name
tibétain  
malgache  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Malagassi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Malagasy people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Austronesian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indonesian  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
standard Malagasy  

Language Position
Not Available  
84  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
mg  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mlg  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mlg  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mlg  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
mala1537  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Verb-Object-Subject  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
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Tibetan and Malagasy Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Malagasy language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Malagasy language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Malagasy language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Malagasy Language History.

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Tibetan and Malagasy 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 Malagasy greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Malagasy language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Malagasy word for "Thank You" is Misaotra. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Malagasy Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Malagasy Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Malagasy difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Malagasy 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 Malagasy are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Malagasy, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Malagasy time required is Not Available.

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