1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Sôhk dii der
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 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
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology