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
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
Not Available
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Sudan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Levantine
Where They Speak
China
Cyprus, Levant
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Arabs
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Arabic language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Arabic Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.