Countries
China, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Namaskar
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chike
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Maf kor
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Adeus
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Antruz
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Goa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.007.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
tibétain
konkani
German Name
Tibetisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Konkanis
Origin
c. 650
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kokani
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kok
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kok
ISO 639 3
bod
kok
ISO 639 6
bod
kok
Glottocode
tibe1272
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-