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Arabic and Tibetan


Tibetan and Arabic


Countries

Countries
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   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
23   
4
2   
13

National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Amharic and Hebrew   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
28   
10
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
28   
18
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
مرحبا   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
شكرا   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
كيف حالك؟   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
تصبح على خير   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
مساء الخير   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
مساء الخير   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
صباح الخير   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
من فضلك   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
آسف   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
وداعا   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
أحبك   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
اعذرني   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Sudanese   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Sudan   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00   
6
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Levantine   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant   
China   

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00   
3
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
26   
22
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million   
4
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
4.43 %   
6
Not Available   

Native Speakers
206.00 million   
6
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million   
2
Not Available   

Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
arabe   
tibétain   

German Name
Arabisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Arabs   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
512 CE   
c. 650   

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Semitic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
North Arabic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
25   
21
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ar   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ara   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
ara   
tib   

ISO 639 3
ara   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
arab1395   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
12-AAC   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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All Arabic 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 Arabic and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Arabic and Tibetan Speaking population

Arabic and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Tibetan on Arabic vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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