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Albanian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Albanian


Countries

Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
  • 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
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  • 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.
  

Similar To
Romanian  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
36  
18
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7  
4
5  
2

How Many Consonants
29  
19
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

Thank You
Ju faleminderit  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

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

Good Night
natën e mirë  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
mirëmbrëma  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
mirëdita  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
Ju lutem  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Me fal  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
unë e dua ju  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Më falni  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Arbëresh  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Italy  
China  

How Many People Speak
100,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
3.60 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Shqip  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
albanais  
tibétain  

German Name
Albanisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ʃcip]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Albanians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1462 AD  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Albanian  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Albanian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
14  
13
29  
27

Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
sq  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
sqi  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
alb  
tib  

ISO 639 3
sqi  
bod  

ISO 639 6
sqi  
bod  

Glottocode
alba1267  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
-  

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

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Albanian and Tibetan Speaking population

Albanian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Albanian and Tibetan on Albanian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Albanian and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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