Countries
Thailand
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Lao Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Khmer Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Thai
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
โปรด (Pord)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Isan
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Isan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
13
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
8
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
20.00 million
  
37
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million
  
15
Not Available
  
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
thaï
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Thailändisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
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
Old Thai
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Thai
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
th
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tha
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
tha
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
tha
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
thai1261
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available