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Tibetan vs Konkani


Konkani vs 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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Tibetan and Konkani Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Konkani language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Konkani language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Konkani language states that this language originated in 1209 A.D.. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Konkani Language History.

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Tibetan and Konkani Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Konkani language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Konkani Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Konkani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.

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