Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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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.
- 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 in
Alphabets
3635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2930
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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།
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Italy
China
How Many People Speak
100,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
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
1429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
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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