Countries
China, Nepal
  
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
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
آسف
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
tibétain
  
arabe
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 650
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic