Countries
India, Karnataka, India
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Kannada-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
Dialect 1
Badaga
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Urali
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
kerala
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Kurumba
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
49.00 million
  
29
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
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