Countries
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Andra Pradesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Karnataka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
- Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
- 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
Tamil
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
195
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4130
9
60
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Scripts
Telugu Script
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
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
హలో (Halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
బై (Bai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Waddar
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
170,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chenchu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
26,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Manna-Dora
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
China
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
386
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
80.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.15 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
తెలుగు (telugu)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
télougou
tibétain
German Name
Telugu-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈteluɡu]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Telugu people
tibetan people
Origin
c. 575
c. 650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Early Telugu epigraphy
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Telugu
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Telugu
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
te
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tel
bod
ISO 639 2/B
tel
tib
ISO 639 3
tel
bod
ISO 639 6
tel
bod
Glottocode
telu1262
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-