Countries
India
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4127
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
anugroha kori
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
biḍai
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Laos
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Laos
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Assam
Laos
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
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
assamais
lao
German Name
Assamesisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Lao people
Origin
7th century A.D
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tai
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Lao
Language Position
6543
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
lao
ISO 639 2/B
asm
lao
ISO 639 3
asm
lao
ISO 639 6
asm
lao
Glottocode
assa1263
laoo1244
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Isolating