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
  
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 in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
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