Countries
China, Nepal
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
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Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
528
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Central Lao
Where They Speak
China
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
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
French Name
tibétain
lao
German Name
Tibetisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Lao people
Origin
c. 650
1283 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Lao
Language Position
2943
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Lao Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
lao
ISO 639 2/B
tib
lao
ISO 639 3
bod
lao
ISO 639 6
bod
lao
Glottocode
tibe1272
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Isolating