Countries
China, Nepal
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
Total No. Of Countries
223
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3528
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3028
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
مرحبا
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
شكرا
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
مساء الخير
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
صباح الخير
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
من فضلك
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
آسف
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
وداعا
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
أحبك
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Sudan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Levantine
Where They Speak
China
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
626
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million452.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %4.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million206.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million246.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
tibétain
arabe
German Name
Tibetisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Arabs
Origin
c. 650
512 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
-
North Arabic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
2925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
ar
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ara
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ara
ISO 639 3
bod
ara
ISO 639 6
bod
ara
Glottocode
tibe1272
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic