Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Malta
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Not Available
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
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Roman Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Ħello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Grazzi
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kif int?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Skużani!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ċaw
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Qormi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Malta
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malta
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not Present
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Malti
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Malti
French Name
tibétain
maltais
German Name
Tibetisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Maltese
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Abric
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Maltese
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC-c
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Tibetan and Maltese 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 Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Maltese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Maltese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Maltese 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 Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.