Countries
Laos
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Thai Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5336
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
288
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2728
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
kedụ
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
dalụ
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Biko
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Ndo
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Kachifo
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Enuani
Where They Speak
Laos
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Laos
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Not present
Where They Speak
Laos
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
igbo
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
Ibo
French Name
lao
igbo
German Name
Laotisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Igbo people
Origin
1283 CE
30th Century BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tai
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
Standard Igbo
Language Position
4357
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lo
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
lao
ibo
ISO 639 3
lao
ibo
ISO 639 6
lao
ibo
Glottocode
laoo1244
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Agglutinative