Countries
China, Nepal
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3029
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Përshëndetje
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Si jeni?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
natën e mirë
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
mirëdita
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
mirëmengjes
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ju lutem
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Me fal
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
mirupafshim
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Më falni
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
China
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million3.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Shqip
French Name
tibétain
albanais
German Name
Tibetisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Albanians
Origin
c. 650
1462 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
tib
alb
ISO 639 3
bod
sqi
ISO 639 6
bod
sqi
Glottocode
tibe1272
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data Available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic