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Lao
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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