About Lao Language | Lao | Alphabets in Lao

Countries

Laos

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Laos, Northeastern Thailand

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Thai Language

Derived From

Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 32 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 20 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 17 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Thai and Lao Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)

Thank You

ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)

How Are You?

ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)

Good Night

ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)

Good Evening

ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)

Please

ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)

Sorry

ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)

Bye

Sôhk dii der

I Love You

ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vientiane Lao

Where They Speak

Laos

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 51 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Northern Lao

Where They Speak

Laos

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 51 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Central Lao

Where They Speak

Laos

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 44 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.22 %

Rank: 46 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

25.00 million

Rank: 32 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)

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

French Name

lao

German Name

Laotisch

Pronunciation

pʰáːsǎː láːw

Ethnicity

Lao people

History

Origin

1283 CE

Language Family

Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

Tai

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early forms

Standard Forms

Lao

Language Position

Rank: 40 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Lao Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lao

ISO 639 2/B

lao

ISO 639 3

lao

ISO 639 6

lao

Glottocode

laoo1244

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Isolating

Know Alphabets in Lao

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Lao Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Lao Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Lao. Lao phonology gives Lao vowels and Lao consonants. There are 28 vowels and 27 consonants in Lao language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Lao is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Lao language is given in detail in this section.

All Lao countries

Want to explore all Lao countries? About Lao language serves you with all Lao Speaking Countries. Countries that use Lao as official language are called as Lao countries.

Countries that use Lao as their National Language are: Laos, Northeastern Thailand.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Lao as second language are: Lao is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Lao greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Lao Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Lao language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Lao language.Learn Lao greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank you: ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Good Morning: ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Good Evening: ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon: ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

All Lao Language Codes

Get to know all Lao language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Lao Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.