1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Laos
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Bulgaria
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
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Macedonian 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
Cyrillic
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Моля (Molja)
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
Sôhk dii der
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Panagyurishte
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?
25.00 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
български (bãlgarski)
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
Balgarski
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Bulgarian Sign Language
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
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