Countries
Laos
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Thai Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
286
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2721
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Halo
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Sugeng énjing
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
matur nuwun
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Laos
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Laos
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Arekan
Where They Speak
Laos
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
616
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
basa Jawa
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
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
lao
javanais
German Name
Laotisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1283 CE
450 AD
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
Javanese
Language Position
4311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
jav
ISO 639 2/B
lao
jav
ISO 639 3
lao
jav
ISO 639 6
lao
jav
Glottocode
laoo1244
java1253
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