Countries
Laos
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
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Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Thai Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5395
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
285
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Tsip maza
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Laya
Where They Speak
Laos
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Lunana
Where They Speak
Laos
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Adap
Where They Speak
Laos
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
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
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
lao
dzongkha
German Name
Laotisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Ngalop people
Origin
1283 CE
17th Century
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
Dzongkha
Language Position
4331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
lao
dzo
ISO 639 3
lao
dzo
ISO 639 6
lao
dzo
Glottocode
laoo1244
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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