Countries
China, Nepal
New Zealand
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
New Zealand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
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Tahitian Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Night pai
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Morning pai
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Tēnā
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Aroha mai
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
poroporoaki
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
China
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
New Zealand Maori
French Name
tibétain
maori
German Name
Tibetisch
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Māori people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Polynesian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Maori
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
maor1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Maori 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 Maori greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Maori language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Maori word for "Thank You" is Mauruuru koutou. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Maori Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Maori Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Maori difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Maori 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 Maori are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Maori, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Maori time required is 24 weeks.