1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Laos
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Germany
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Albanian 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
Thai and Lao Braille
Latin
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)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
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 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Deutsch
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
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Lao
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
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
laoo1244
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic