Countries
India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Chike
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Maf kor
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Adeus
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Antruz
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Goa
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
7.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
konkani
tibétain
German Name
Konkani
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
tibetan people
Origin
1209 A.D.
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
bod
ISO 639 2/B
kok
tib
ISO 639 3
kok
bod
ISO 639 6
kok
bod
Glottocode
goan1235
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-