Countries
China, Nepal
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
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.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Not Available
Konkani Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kokan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Vidarbha
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
China
Khandesh
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
tibétain
marathe
German Name
Tibetisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
Not Available
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Marathi people
Origin
c. 650
10th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Marathi
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
mara1378
Linguasphere
No data Available
omr
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Tibetan and Marathi 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 Marathi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Marathi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Marathi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Marathi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Marathi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Marathi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Marathi 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 Marathi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Marathi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Marathi time required is 4 weeks.
