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Tibetan vs Maori


Maori vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
New Zealand  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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
Not Available  
Tahitian Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
20  
2

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
10  
2

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
South Island Māori  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
New Zealand  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western North Island Maori  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
New Zealand  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Eastern North Island Maori  

Where They Speak
China  
New Zealand  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
0.18 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.18 million  
99+

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  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Māori people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1814  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Polynesian  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

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  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
mi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mri  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mao  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mri  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
maor1246  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Maori Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Maori language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Maori language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Maori language states that this language originated in 1814. 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 Maori Language History.

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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.

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