Countries
India
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- 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
Marathi
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Chike
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
konkani
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available