Countries
China, Nepal
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
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.
Similar To
Not Available
  
Romanian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
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
  
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
  
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