Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
232
0
46
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National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2835
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2830
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
مرحبا
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
شكرا
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
صباح الخير
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
من فضلك
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
آسف
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
وداعا
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
أحبك
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
310,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sudanese
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sudan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Levantine
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
266
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
4.43 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
206.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
arabe
tibétain
German Name
Arabisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Arabs
tibetan people
Origin
512 CE
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
North Arabic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ar
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ara
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ara
tib
ISO 639 3
ara
bod
ISO 639 6
ara
bod
Glottocode
arab1395
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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