Countries
Laos
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Lao-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (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
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
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
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
  
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
  
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