Countries
China, Nepal
Laos
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
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Lao-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Laos
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Central Lao
Where They Speak
China
Laos
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
German Name
Tibetisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tai
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Lao
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Isolating
Tibetan and Lao Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Lao greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Lao language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Lao word for "Thank You" is ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Lao Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Lao Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Lao difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Lao Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Lao are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Lao, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Lao time required is 44 weeks.