Countries
China, Nepal
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
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
Alphabets in
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Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
China
Italy
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Albanian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Glottocode
tibe1272
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data Available
55-AAA-aaa
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic
Tibetan and Albanian 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 Tibetan and Albanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Albanian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Albanian word for "Thank You" is Ju faleminderit. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Albanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Albanian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Albanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Albanian 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 Tibetan and Albanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Albanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Albanian time required is 44 weeks.