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Tibetan and Albanian


Albanian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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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Similar To
Not Available   
Romanian   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
36   
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
7   
4

How Many Consonants
30   
20
29   
19

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
natën e mirë   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
mirëmbrëma   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
mirëdita   

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Ju lutem   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Me fal   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
unë e dua ju   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Gheg Albanian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
3,400,000.00   
20

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Tosk Albanian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
1,800,000.00   
20

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Arbëresh   

Where They Speak
China   
Italy   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
100,000.00   
28

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
7.50 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
3.10 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
3.60 million   
31

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
shqip / gjuha shqipe   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Not Available   

French Name
tibétain   
albanais   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Albanisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ʃcip]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Albanians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1462 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Albanian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Albanian   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
sq   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
sqi   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
alb   

ISO 639 3
bod   
sqi   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
alba1267   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
55-AAA-aaa   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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

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Tibetan and Albanian Speaking population

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Tibetan and Albanian Language Codes

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

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