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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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Sanskrit Language   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
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
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Not present   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Not present   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

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+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
7.40 million   
99+
1.20 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   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Konkanis   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1209 A.D.   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

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   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
goan1235   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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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 Not Available. 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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