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Thai vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Thai


Countries

Countries
Thailand   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
44   
24
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32   
21
5   
2

How Many Consonants
44   
33
30   
20

Scripts
Thai   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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།   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
9   
9
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million   
27
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.85 %   
23
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   

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
Old Thai   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Thai   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
47   
34
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

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   

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Thai and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Thai vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Thai and Tibetan language. History of Thai language states that this language originated in 1283 CE whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Thai and Tibetan Language History.

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Thai and Tibetan Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Thai and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Thai and Tibetan language. Thai word for "Hello" is สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Thai Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Thai vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Thai vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Thai Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Thai and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Thai and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Thai is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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