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Konkani and Tibetan


Tibetan and Konkani


Countries

Countries
India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
52  
31
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16  
13
5  
2

How Many Consonants
36  
26
30  
20

Scripts
Devanagari  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks  
2
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Antruz  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Goa  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Not present  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
-  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Not present  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
-  
China  

How Many People Speak
7.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
1  
1
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.40 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
8.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

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
-  
-  

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All Konkani 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 Konkani and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Konkani and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Konkani are spoken in different Konkani Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Konkani vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Konkani dialects include: Antruz Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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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.

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