Countries
India
China, Nepal
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
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Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
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Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
Glottocode
goan1235
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Konkani and Tibetan Speaking population
Konkani and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Konkani and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Konkani and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 % 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 Konkani and Tibetan on Konkani vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Konkani and Tibetan Language Codes
Konkani and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Konkani and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.