Countries
China, Nepal
Laos
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Not Available
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Laos
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Central Lao
Where They Speak
China
Laos
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
German Name
Tibetisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tai
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Lao
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Isolating
Tibetan and Lao Speaking population
Tibetan and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao 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 Tibetan and Lao on Tibetan vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Lao Language Codes
Tibetan and Lao language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Lao Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.