Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
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Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1028
0
32
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How Many Consonants
927
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
Danke
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
guten Abend
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
bitte
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Verzeihung
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Tschüs
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Laos
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Germany
Laos
How Many People Speak
820,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Texas
Laos
How Many People Speak
6,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
286
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
128.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
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
allemand
lao
German Name
Deutsch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Germans
Lao people
Origin
6th Century AD
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tai
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Lao
Language Position
943
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
lao
ISO 639 2/B
ger
lao
ISO 639 3
deu
lao
ISO 639 6
deus
lao
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
laoo1244
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Isolating