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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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