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Lao
Tibetan and Lao


Countries

Countries
Laos   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Thai Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
53   
32
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
28   
20
5   
2

How Many Consonants
27   
17
30   
20

Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Good Morning
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Sôhk dii der   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Laos   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Northern Lao   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Laos   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Central Lao   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Laos   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
25.00 million   
32
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
lao   
tibétain   

German Name
Laotisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1283 CE   
c. 650   

Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Tai   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No Early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Lao   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
lo   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lao   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
lao   
tib   

ISO 639 3
lao   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
laoo1244   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Isolating   
Not Available   

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All Lao and Tibetan 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 Lao and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Lao and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Lao are spoken in different Lao Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Lao vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Lao dialects include: Vientiane Lao, Northern Lao. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Lao and Tibetan Speaking population

Lao and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lao and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Lao and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lao language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Lao and Tibetan on Lao vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lao and Tibetan Language Codes

Lao and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lao and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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