Countries
China, Nepal
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Not Available
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Mappila
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
China
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
tibétain
malayalam
German Name
Tibetisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Malayali
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Malayalam
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Tibetan and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Malayalam language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.