Countries
Thailand
China, Nepal
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
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Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Thai
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Isan
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Isan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
China
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
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
thai1261
tibe1272
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Thai and Tibetan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Thai and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Thai and Tibetan language. Thai word for "Hello" is สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Thai Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Thai vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Thai vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Thai Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Thai and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Thai and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Thai is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.