Countries
Indonesia
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
628
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2127
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
matur nuwun
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
matur nuwun
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Laos
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Laos
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Laos
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
166
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
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
javanais
lao
German Name
Javanisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Lao people
Origin
450 AD
1283 CE
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Lao
Language Position
1143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
lao
ISO 639 2/B
jav
lao
ISO 639 3
jav
lao
ISO 639 6
jav
lao
Glottocode
java1253
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
Isolating