Countries
Laos
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
-
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Thai Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
286
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2722
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
будь ласк
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Sôhk dii der
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Podillian
Where They Speak
Laos
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Volynian
Where They Speak
Laos
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Steppe
Where They Speak
Laos
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
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
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
lao
ukrainien
German Name
Laotisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Ukrainians
Origin
1283 CE
1561
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Lao
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
4326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
lao
ukr
ISO 639 3
lao
ukr
ISO 639 6
lao
ukr
Glottocode
laoo1244
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic