1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Laos
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
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
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Moi
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Vientiane Lao
4.1.1 Where They Speak
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
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
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
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
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
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Isolating