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Kannada and Tibetan


Tibetan and Kannada


Countries

Countries
India, Karnataka, India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Karnataka, India  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Goa  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Telugu  
Not Available  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
49  
29
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
5  
2

How Many Consonants
35  
25
30  
20

Scripts
Kannada Script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
ಹಲೋ (Halō)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
ಬೈ (Bai)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Badaga  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
540,000.00  
33
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Urali  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
kerala  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
6,440.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Kurumba  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu  
China  

How Many People Speak
220,000.00  
23
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
20  
18
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
49.00 million  
29
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.58 %  
26
Not Available  

Native Speakers
38.00 million  
26
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
11.00 million  
21
Not Available  

Native Name
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
kannada  
tibétain  

German Name
Kannada  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Kannadiga  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
c. 450  
c. 650  

Language Family
Dravidian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Kannada, Kannada  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Kannada  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
31  
25
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
kn  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kan  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
kan  
tib  

ISO 639 3
kan  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
nucl1305  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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

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Kannada and Tibetan Speaking population

Kannada and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kannada and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kannada and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kannada language is 0.58 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Kannada and Tibetan on Kannada vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kannada and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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