Lao and Cantonese Speaking countries

Lao vs Cantonese Countries

Comparing Lao vs Cantonese countries gives you idea about number of countries that speak Lao and Cantonese languages.

So we find that, total number of countries where Lao is official language is 1 whereas total number of countries where Cantonese is official language is 2

Find if Lao and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages. Comparison of Lao and Cantonese speaking countries will give you the presence of Lao and Cantonese languages in different countries. Along with Lao vs Cantonese countries, you can also compare Lao vs Cantonese.

Lao and Cantonese as Minority Language

In Lao and Cantonese speaking countries you will get the countries which have Lao and Cantonese as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Lao and Cantonese dialects, then you can go to Lao vs Cantonese Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Lao and Cantonese Regulators

Lao and Cantonese speaking countries provide you Lao and Cantonese regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Lao is not regulated.Cantonese is regulated by Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division. Also get to learn, Lao and Cantonese Language History.

Lao and Cantonese Continents

Thinking about Lao and Cantonese continents in which Lao and Cantonese speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Lao and Cantonese. Most of the Lao speaking countries lie in Asia. While Cantonese speaking countries lie in Asia. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Lao and Cantonese languages:

Lao 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.

Cantonese Interesting Facts:

• Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
• Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

The Lao language was derived from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages and is similar to Thai Language whereas Lao language is similar to Chinese Language and derived from Not Available.