1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Thai and Lao Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Laos
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
pʰáːsǎː láːw
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology