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
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Kannada Script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Urali
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
kerala
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Kurumba
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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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]
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Ethnicity
Kannadiga
tibetan people
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1305
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Kannada and Tibetan 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 Kannada and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kannada and Tibetan language. Kannada word for "Hello" is ಹಲೋ (Halō) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Kannada Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kannada vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Kannada vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kannada Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Kannada and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kannada and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kannada is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
