Countries
European Union, Finland
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
828
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1327
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
Kiitos
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
haluta
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Anteeksi
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Heippa
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Finland
Laos
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Laos
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Laos
How Many People Speak
60,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Suomi
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
finnois
lao
German Name
Finnisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Lao people
Origin
1543
1283 CE
Language Family
Uralic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tai
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No Early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Lao
Language Position
2243
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
lao
ISO 639 2/B
fin
lao
ISO 639 3
fin
lao
ISO 639 6
fin
lao
Glottocode
finn1318
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Isolating