Countries
Laos
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Thai Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
288
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2713
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Moi
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Kiitos
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
haluta
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Anteeksi
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Heippa
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Laos
Finland
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Rauma
Where They Speak
Laos
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Laos
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
suomi / suomen kieli
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
Suomi
French Name
lao
finnois
German Name
Laotisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Lao people
ethnic Finns
Origin
1283 CE
1543
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Lao
standard Finnish
Language Position
4322
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
fin
ISO 639 2/B
lao
fin
ISO 639 3
lao
fin
ISO 639 6
lao
fin
Glottocode
laoo1244
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic