Countries
Laos
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Bangladesh, India
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
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
-
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Thai Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2741
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
nomoskaar
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
subha abeli
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
suprobhaat
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
anugroha kori
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Sôhk dii der
biḍai
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Laos
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Laos
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Laos
Assam
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
lao
assamais
German Name
Laotisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Assamese people
Origin
1283 CE
7th century A.D
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Lao
Assamese
Language Position
4365
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
asm
ISO 639 2/B
lao
asm
ISO 639 3
lao
asm
ISO 639 6
lao
asm
Glottocode
laoo1244
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
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