Countries
China, Nepal
India
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 in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Antruz
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Goa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
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
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Konkani 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 Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Konkani language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Konkani Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Konkani 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 Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.