Countries
Laos
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
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.
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
Similar To
Thai Language
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
East and South Slavic Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5340
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2814
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2725
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
szia
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
köszönöm
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Hogy vagy?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Jó Éjszakát
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
jó Estét
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Jó Napot Kívánok
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
jó Reggelt
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Kérlek
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
bocsi
Bye
Sôhk dii der
viszlát
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Szeretlek
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
elnézést
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Csángó
Where They Speak
Laos
Bacău County, Rumania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Oberwart
Where They Speak
Laos
Austria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Székely
Where They Speak
Laos
Székely Land
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
611
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.19 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.07 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
magyar / magyar nyelv
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
Magyar
French Name
lao
hongrois
German Name
Laotisch
Ungarisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Hungarians
Origin
1283 CE
1192 AD
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Ugric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Hungarian
Standard Forms
Lao
Modern Hungarian
Language Position
4366
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Hungarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
hu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
hun
ISO 639 2/B
lao
hun
ISO 639 3
lao
hun
ISO 639 6
lao
hun
Glottocode
laoo1244
hung1274
Linguasphere
No data available
ohu
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic