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Arabic vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Arabic


Countries

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
23  
4
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
28  
10
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
28  
18
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
310,000,000.00  
2
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Sudanese  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Sudan  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
29
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Levantine  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant  
China  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million  
4
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
4.43 %  
6
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
206.00 million  
6
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million  
2
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
25  
23
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

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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Arabic and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Arabic vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Arabic and Tibetan language. History of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Arabic and Tibetan Language History.

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Arabic and Tibetan 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 Arabic and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Tibetan language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Arabic vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Arabic vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Arabic and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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