Countries
Laos
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Thai Language
Marathi
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2736
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Namaskar
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Chike
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Maf kor
Bye
Sôhk dii der
Adeus
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Antruz
Where They Speak
Laos
Goa
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Not present
Where They Speak
Laos
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Not present
Where They Speak
Laos
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Kōṅkaṇī
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
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
lao
konkani
German Name
Laotisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Lao people
Konkanis
Origin
1283 CE
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lao
Kokani
Language Position
4323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
kok
ISO 639 2/B
lao
kok
ISO 639 3
lao
kok
ISO 639 6
lao
kok
Glottocode
laoo1244
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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