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Tibetan vs Thai


Thai vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Thailand   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
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   
Burma, Cambodia, Laos   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)   

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Lao Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Khmer Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
44   
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
32   
21

How Many Consonants
30   
20
44   
33

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Thai   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
โปรด (Pord)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Isan   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Isan   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
20,000,000.00   
10

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Northern Thai   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Northern Thailand   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
6,000,000.00   
13

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Southern Thai   

Where They Speak
China   
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
4,500,000.00   
8

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
9   
9

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.85 %   
23

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
20.00 million   
37

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
40.00 million   
15

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ภาษาไทย   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang   

French Name
tibétain   
thaï   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Thailändisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Central Thai and Thai Chinese   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1283 CE   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Tai-Kadai Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Tai   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Thai   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Thai   

Language Position
Not Available   
47   
34

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Thai Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
th   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
tha   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
tha   

ISO 639 3
bod   
tha   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
thai1261   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
47-AAA-b   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Tibetan and Thai Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Thai language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Thai language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Thai language states that this language originated in 1283 CE. 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 Tibetan and Thai Language History.

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Tibetan and Thai 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 Tibetan and Thai greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Thai language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Thai word for "Thank You" is ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Thai Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Thai Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Thai difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Thai 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 Tibetan and Thai are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Thai, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Thai time required is 44 weeks.

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