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Tibetan and Konkani


Konkani and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
India   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Govenment of Goa   

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.
  
  • Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
  • Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Marathi   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
52   
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
16   
13

How Many Consonants
30   
20
36   
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Devanagari   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
4 weeks   
2

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Namaskar   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Dev Borem Korum   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
kaso assa?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Rati Boren Zavonn   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Sanj Borem Zavonn   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Dis Borem Zavonn   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Chike   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Maf kor   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
hav tujo mog korta.   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
upkar korxi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Antruz   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Goa   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Not present   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Not present   

Where They Speak
China   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
1   
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
7.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.11 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
7.40 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Kōṅkaṇī   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese   

French Name
tibétain   
konkani   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Konkani   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
kõkɳi   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Konkanis   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1209 A.D.   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Kokani   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Indian Signing System (ISS)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual, Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
kok   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
kok   

ISO 639 3
bod   
kok   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
goan1235   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Konkani 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 Konkani dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Konkani language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Konkani Dialects are spoken in different Konkani speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Konkani Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Konkani dialects include: Antruz Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Konkani Speaking population

Tibetan and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 %. 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 Konkani on Tibetan vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Konkani Language Codes

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

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