Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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
Not Available
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
828
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2827
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
kedụ
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
dalụ
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
Biko
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Ndo
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
-9999
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Laos
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Not Available
Laos
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Ibo
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
igbo
lao
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Not Available
History
Origin
30th Century BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Tai
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Lao
Language Position
57NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
lao
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
lao
ISO 639 3
ibo
lao
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1417
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Isolating