Countries
China, Nepal
India, Karnataka, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Karnataka, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Goa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Telugu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3549
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
514
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3035
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ಬೈ (Bai)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Badaga
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00540,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Urali
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
kerala
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,440.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kurumba
Where They Speak
China
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00220,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million49.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.58 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
French Name
tibétain
kannada
German Name
Tibetisch
Kannada
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kannadiga
Origin
c. 650
c. 450
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Kannada, Kannada
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Kannada
Language Position
2931
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
kn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kan
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kan
ISO 639 3
bod
kan
ISO 639 6
bod
kan
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1305
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-