Countries
Laos
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Thai Language
Hindi
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2812
0
32
👆🏻
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
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
कृपया
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Sôhk dii der
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Doteli
Where They Speak
Laos
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Laos
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Central Lao
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Laos
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
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
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
lao
népalais
German Name
Laotisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Lao people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1283 CE
19 BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Lao
Nepali
Language Position
4359
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lo
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
nep
ISO 639 2/B
lao
nep
ISO 639 3
lao
npi
ISO 639 6
lao
nep
Glottocode
laoo1244
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
Agglutinative