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Kannada
Kannada

Tibetan
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Countries

Countries

India, Karnataka, India
China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Karnataka, India
Nepal, Tibet

Second Language

Goa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
China, India, Nepal

Regulated By

Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language

Interesting Facts

  • Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
  • Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
  • 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.

Similar To

Telugu
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4935
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

145
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3530
9 60
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Scripts

Kannada Script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ಹಲೋ (Halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)

Thank You

ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)

How Are You?

ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)

Good Night

ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)

Good Evening

ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Afternoon

ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Morning

ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)

Please

ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.

Sorry

ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)

Bye

ಬೈ (Bai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)

I Love You

ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)

Excuse Me

ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།

Dialects

Dialect 1

Badaga
Central Tibetan

Where They Speak

Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
China, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

540,000.001,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Urali
Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak

kerala
Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak

6,440.001,400,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kurumba
Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
China

How Many People Speak

220,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

206
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

49.00 million1.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.58 %0.05 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

38.00 million1.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

11.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

Alternative Names

Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

French Name

kannada
tibétain

German Name

Kannada
Tibetisch

Pronunciation

[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
[tibetan]

Ethnicity

Kannadiga
tibetan people

History

Origin

c. 450
c. 650

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Kannada, Kannada
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Standard Forms

Modern Kannada
Standard Tibetan

Language Position

3129
1 120
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Signed Forms

Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

kn
bo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kan
bod

ISO 639 2/B

kan
tib

ISO 639 3

kan
bod

ISO 639 6

kan
bod

Glottocode

nucl1305
tibe1272

Linguasphere

No data available
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

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Kannada and Tibetan Alphabets

Kannada and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kannada and Tibetan. In Kannada Alphabets there are 49 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Kannada and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kannada and Tibetan languages. The Kannada phonology consist Kannada vowels and Kannada consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kannada greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kannada and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kannada and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kannada and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Kannada and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kannada are spoken in different Kannada Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kannada vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kannada dialects include: Badaga, Urali. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kannada and Tibetan Speaking population

Kannada and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kannada and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kannada and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kannada language is 0.58 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kannada and Tibetan on Kannada vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kannada and Tibetan Language Codes

Kannada and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kannada and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.