Countries
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Andra Pradesh, India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Karnataka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
- Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
  
- 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
Tamil
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Telugu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Telugu Script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
హలో (Halō)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
బై (Bai)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Waddar
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Chenchu
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Manna-Dora
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
80.00 million
  
20
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
తెలుగు (telugu)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
télougou
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Telugu-Sprache
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Telugu people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 575
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Early Telugu epigraphy
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Telugu
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
te
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tel
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
tel
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
tel
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
telu1262
  
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