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
Tibetan and Thai 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 Thai greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Thai language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Thai word for "Thank You" is ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Thai Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Thai Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Thai difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Thai 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 Thai are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Thai, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Thai time required is 44 weeks.