Countries
Laos
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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 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.
Similar To
Thai Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
288
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2720
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
您好
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
谢谢
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
晚安
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
下午好
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
早上好
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
请
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
遗憾
Bye
Sôhk dii der
再见
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
我爱你
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Laos
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Laos
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Laos
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.22 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Kwang Tung Wa
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
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
lao
cantonais
German Name
Laotisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Han Chinese
Origin
1283 CE
17th century
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
lo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
yue
ISO 639 2/B
lao
yue
ISO 639 3
lao
No data available
ISO 639 6
lao
yue
Glottocode
laoo1244
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
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