Countries
China, Nepal
Thailand
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
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Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Northern Thailand
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
China
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tai
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Thai
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data Available
47-AAA-b
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
All Tibetan and Thai 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 Thai dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Thai language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Thai Dialects are spoken in different Thai speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Thai Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Thai dialects include: Isan , Northern Thai. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Thai Speaking population
Tibetan and Thai speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Thai languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Thai Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 %. 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 Thai on Tibetan vs Thai where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Thai Language Codes
Tibetan and Thai language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Thai Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.