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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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

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

History

Origin

c. 650
c. 450

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
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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

Code

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

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
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Tibetan and Kannada Alphabets

Tibetan and Kannada Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tibetan and Kannada. In Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters while in Kannada Alphabets there are 49 letters. To learn Tibetan and Kannada languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tibetan and Kannada languages. The Tibetan phonology consist Tibetan vowels and Tibetan consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Tibetan greetings vs Kannada greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tibetan and Kannada are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Tibetan and Kannada Speaking population

Tibetan and Kannada speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kannada languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kannada Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kannada language is 0.58 %. 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 Tibetan and Kannada on Tibetan vs Kannada where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Kannada Language Codes

Tibetan and Kannada language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Kannada Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.