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

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

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

Tibetan and Lao Speaking population

Tibetan and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao 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 Tibetan and Lao on Tibetan vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Lao Language Codes

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

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