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Tibetan and Konkani


Konkani and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
16  
13

How Many Consonants
30  
20
36  
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
4 weeks  
2

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Antruz  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Goa  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
2,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
2,700,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
7.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
7.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.11 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
8.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System (ISS)  

Scope
-  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

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
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Konkani Speaking population

Tibetan and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 %. 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 Konkani on Tibetan vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Konkani Language Codes

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

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