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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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