Countries
India
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
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Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1628
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
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
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
Chike
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Maf kor
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Adeus
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Goa
Laos
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
-
Laos
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Central Lao
Where They Speak
-
Laos
How Many People Speak
7.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
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
konkani
lao
German Name
Konkani
Laotisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Lao people
Origin
1209 A.D.
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
Kokani
Lao
Language Position
2343
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
lao
ISO 639 2/B
kok
lao
ISO 639 3
kok
lao
ISO 639 6
kok
lao
Glottocode
goan1235
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Isolating