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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sudan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Levantine
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
North Arabic
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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 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
arab1395
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Arabic 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 Arabic and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Tibetan language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Arabic vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
