1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Norway
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer 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
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
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
hallo
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
god natt
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
god kveld
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
Vær så snill
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
3.9 Sorry
unnskyld
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Central Lao
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?
5.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Norsk
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Norsk
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
lao
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
pʰáːsǎː láːw
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
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
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
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