1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Gambia, Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
sannu
3.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
gode ku
3.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
yaya dai
3.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
mai kyau dare
3.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
barka da yamma
3.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
barka da rana
3.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
mai kyau safe
3.8 Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Don Allah
3.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
yi hakuri
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Ina son ku
3.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
gafara dai
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
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 million50.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million35.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
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
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Hausa–Fulani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Afro-Asiatic 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
No early forms
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
19-HAA-b
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