Countries
China, Nepal
India, Karnataka, India
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
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Badaga
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Urali
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
kerala
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kurumba
Where They Speak
China
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Kannada, Kannada
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Kannada
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1305
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Kannada Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Kannada greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kannada language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kannada word for "Thank You" is ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kannada Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Kannada Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Kannada difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kannada Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Kannada are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kannada, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kannada time required is 44 weeks.