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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Italy
China
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
albanais
tibétain
German Name
Albanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
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Ethnicity
Albanians
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
alba1267
tibe1272
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Albanian and Tibetan 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 Albanian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Tibetan language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Albanian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Albanian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.