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
-
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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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།
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?
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
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
-
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
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-