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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Laos

Total No. Of Countries

91
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Laos, Northeastern Thailand

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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Interesting Facts

  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  • 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

Serbain and Bosnian
Thai Language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3053
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

528
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2527
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
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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Greetings

Hello

bok
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)

Thank You

hvala
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)

How Are You?

kako si
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)

Good Night

laku noć
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)

Good Evening

dobra večer
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

dobro jutro
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)

Please

molim
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)

Sorry

Oprostite
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)

Bye

Doviđenja
Sôhk dii der

I Love You

Volim te
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Vientiane Lao

Where They Speak

Croatia
Laos

How Many People Speak

660,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Northern Lao

Where They Speak

Croatia
Laos

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.003,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Central Lao

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Laos

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

796
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.22 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
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

croate
lao

German Name

Kroatisch
Laotisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
pʰáːsǎː láːw

Ethnicity

Croats
Lao people

History

Origin

9th century
1283 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

-
Tai

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Lao

Language Position

2343
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Lao Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
lo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
lao

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
lao

ISO 639 3

hrv
lao

ISO 639 6

hrv
lao

Glottocode

croa1245
laoo1244

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Isolating

Croatian and Lao Alphabets

Croatian and Lao Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Lao. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Croatian and Lao languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Lao languages. The Croatian phonology consist Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Croatian greetings vs Lao greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Lao are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Lao Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Lao dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Lao language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Lao Dialects are spoken in different Lao speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Lao Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Lao dialects include: Vientiane Lao , Northern Lao. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Lao Speaking population

Croatian and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Croatian and Lao on Croatian vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Lao Language Codes

Croatian and Lao language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Lao Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.