Countries
China, Nepal
  
Thailand
  
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 in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Thai
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Thai Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.