1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Farsi Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Not Available
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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Silaw
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Bê zehmet
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Laos
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Laos
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Central Lao
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 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
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European 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
Not Available
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
58-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology