Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Romanian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
albanais
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available