Countries
Laos
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
-
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Thai Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
279
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
hallo
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Danke
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
guten Tag
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
guten Morgen
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
bitte
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Verzeihung
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Tschüs
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Laos
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Laos
Germany
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Texas German
Where They Speak
Laos
Texas
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
628
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Deutsch
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
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
lao
allemand
German Name
Laotisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Germans
Origin
1283 CE
6th Century AD
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
439
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
deu
ISO 639 2/B
lao
ger
ISO 639 3
lao
deu
ISO 639 6
lao
deus
Glottocode
laoo1244
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic