1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Karnataka, India
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Karnataka, India
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Goa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Kannada Script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
ಬೈ (Bai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
540,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
6,440.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
220,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
49.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Kannada, Kannada
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Kannada
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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