1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Myanmar
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Myanmar Language Commission
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Pali Language
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
Thai and Lao Braille
Tangut
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
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
Sôhk dii der
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Laos
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
1.3 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.6 Native Speakers
25.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
2.6.1 Second Language Speakers
2.6.3 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
2.6.4 Alternative Names
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
2.6.5 French Name
2.6.6 German Name
2.7 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
2.8 Ethnicity
Not Available
Bamar people
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
3.3.2 Standard Forms
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Burmese sign language
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Analytic, Isolating