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Tibetan and Kannada


Kannada and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India, Karnataka, India   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Karnataka, India   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Goa   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Telugu   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Kannada-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
49   
29

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
14   
11

How Many Consonants
30   
20
35   
25

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Kannada Script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
ಹಲೋ (Halō)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
ಬೈ (Bai)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Badaga   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
540,000.00   
33

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Urali   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
kerala   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
6,440.00   
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Kurumba   

Where They Speak
China   
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
220,000.00   
23

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
20   
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
49.00 million   
29

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.58 %   
26

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
38.00 million   
26

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
11.00 million   
21

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi   

French Name
tibétain   
kannada   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Kannada   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Kannadiga   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 450   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Kannada, Kannada   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Kannada   

Language Position
Not Available   
31   
25

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Indian Signing System (ISS)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
kn   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
kan   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
kan   

ISO 639 3
bod   
kan   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
nucl1305   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Kannada Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Kannada dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Kannada language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Kannada Dialects are spoken in different Kannada speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Kannada Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Kannada dialects include: Badaga , Urali. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Kannada Speaking population

Tibetan and Kannada speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kannada languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kannada Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kannada language is 0.58 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Kannada on Tibetan vs Kannada where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Kannada Language Codes

Tibetan and Kannada language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Kannada Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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