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Tibetan and Lao


Lao
Lao and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Laos  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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  
-  

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
-  
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
28  
20

How Many Consonants
30  
20
27  
17

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Thai and Lao Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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།  
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (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)  
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Vientiane Lao  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Laos  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Northern Lao  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Laos  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Central Lao  

Where They Speak
China  
Laos  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
25.00 million  
40

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.22 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
3.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
29  
27
43  
40

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Lao Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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
-  
Isolating  

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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.

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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 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. 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

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