1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Laos
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
5.2 National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
5.3 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
5.4 Speaking Continents
5.5 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
5.6 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute for the Languages of Finland
5.7 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.
5.8 Similar To
Thai Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
5.9 Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Not Available
6 Alphabets
6.1 Alphabets in
6.2 Alphabets
1.3 Phonology
1.3.1 How Many Vowels
1.4.3 How Many Consonants
2.6 Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Latin
2.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.8 Hard to Learn
2.8.1 Language Levels
3.1.3 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Moi
4.2 Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Kiitos
4.3 How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Mitä kuuluu?
4.4 Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
hyvää yötä
4.5 Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Hyvää iltaa
4.6 Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Hyvää iltapäivää
4.7 Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Hyvää huomenta
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Anteeksi
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Minä rakastan sinua
4.12 Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Anteeksi
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Colloquial Finnish
5.1.1 Where They Speak
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
5.2 Dialect 2
5.2.1 Where They Speak
5.2.2 How Many People Speak
1.4 Dialect 3
1.4.1 Where They Speak
1.4.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
2.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
6.9 Speaking Population
8.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
8.5.1 Second Language Speakers
8.5.3 Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
suomi / suomen kieli
8.5.4 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
8.5.5 French Name
8.5.6 German Name
8.6 Pronunciation
8.7 Ethnicity
Not Available
ethnic Finns
9 History
9.1 Origin
9.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Uralic Family
9.2.1 Subgroup
9.2.2 Branch
9.3 Language Forms
9.3.1 Early Forms
No Early forms
Proto-Finnic language
9.3.2 Standard Forms
9.3.3 Language Position
9.7.2 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
9.8 Scope
10 Code
10.1 ISO 639 1
10.2 ISO 639 2
10.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
10.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
10.3 ISO 639 3
10.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Glottocode
10.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
10.7 Types of Language
10.7.1 Language Type
10.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
10.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic