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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Laos
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
About Spanish L..
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Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
  • The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
  • 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.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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53
Rank: 32 (Overall)
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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28
Rank: 20 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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27
Rank: 17 (Overall)
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Sôhk dii der
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Laos
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Laos
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Central Lao
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Laos
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
lao
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Laotisch
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
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5.5 Ethnicity
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tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1283 CE
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tai
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Lao
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
lo
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
lao
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
lao
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
lao
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
laoo1244
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
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Lao and Tibetan Alphabets

Lao and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Lao and Tibetan. In Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Lao and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Lao and Tibetan languages. The Lao phonology consist Lao vowels and Lao consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Lao greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Lao and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Lao and Tibetan Speaking population

Lao and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lao and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Lao and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lao language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Lao and Tibetan on Lao vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lao and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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