1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Bangladesh, India
1.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.8 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.9 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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
1.10 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
1.11 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.4.2 How Many Consonants
2.5 Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Bengali, Latin
2.6 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.7 Hard to Learn
2.7.1 Language Levels
1.1.1 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Kumno
2.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Khublei
2.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Kumno phi long?
2.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
thia sukh
2.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
babha janmiet
2.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
babha noph-phai-sngi
2.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
khublei
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
ieit ieit
2.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
map a nga
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 2
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3.5 Dialect 3
3.5.1 Where They Speak
3.5.2 How Many People Speak
3.6 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.84 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million0.84 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Not Available
4.3.3 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
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Khasi people
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
No Early Forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology