Countries
China, Nepal
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
532
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3044
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Isan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Isan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
China
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
69
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million20.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
tibétain
thaï
German Name
Tibetisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
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
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Thai
Language Position
2947
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tha
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tha
ISO 639 3
bod
tha
ISO 639 6
bod
tha
Glottocode
tibe1272
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data Available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating