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Thai and Tibetan


Tibetan and Thai


Countries

Countries
Thailand  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Thailand  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
  • You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
  • 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
Lao Language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Khmer Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
44  
24
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32  
21
5  
2

How Many Consonants
44  
33
30  
20

Scripts
Thai  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
โปรด (Pord)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Isan  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Isan  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
29
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Northern Thai  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Northern Thailand  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Southern Thai  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi  
China  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
39
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
9  
9
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.85 %  
24
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
20.00 million  
37
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
40.00 million  
21
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
ภาษาไทย  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
thaï  
tibétain  

German Name
Thailändisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1283 CE  
c. 650  

Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tai  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Thai  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Thai  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
47  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
th  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
tha  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
tha  
tib  

ISO 639 3
tha  
bod  

ISO 639 6
tha  
bod  

Glottocode
thai1261  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
47-AAA-b  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
-  

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

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Thai and Tibetan Speaking population

Thai and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Thai and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Thai and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Thai and Tibetan on Thai vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Thai and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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