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Albanian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Albanian


Countries

Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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.
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  • 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   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
36   
18
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
5   
2

How Many Consonants
29   
19
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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།   

Dialects

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
100,000.00   
28
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   

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All Albanian and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Albanian and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Albanian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Albanian are spoken in different Albanian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Albanian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Albanian dialects include: Gheg Albanian, Tosk Albanian. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Albanian and Tibetan Speaking population

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Albanian and Tibetan Language Codes

Albanian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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