Countries
China, Nepal
India, Manipur
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
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
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
Similar To
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Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Khurumjari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Yamna nungaijare
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Athengba Ahing
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Nongale haugatl
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chanbiduna
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Saobiganu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Chatcharage
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eina nangbu nungsi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Loi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burma, Laos
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Pangal
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meithei proper
Where They Speak
China
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
মৈইতৈইলোন
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
French Name
tibétain
Meithei
German Name
Tibetisch
Meithei
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Meithei people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Meithei
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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ISO 639 1
bo
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
mani1292
Linguasphere
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omp
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Meithei 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 Meithei greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Meithei language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Meithei word for "Thank You" is Yamna nungaijare. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Meithei Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Meithei Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Meithei difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Meithei 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 Meithei are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Meithei, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Meithei time required is 44 weeks.