Countries
Laos
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Thai Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
285
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
9
60
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Scripts
Thai and Lao Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Sôhk dii der
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Vientiane Lao
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Laos
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Lao
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Laos
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Central Lao
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Laos
China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.22 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
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
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
lao
tibétain
German Name
Laotisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
pʰáːsǎː láːw
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Lao people
tibetan people
Origin
1283 CE
c. 650
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Lao
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lao Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
lo
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lao
bod
ISO 639 2/B
lao
tib
ISO 639 3
lao
bod
ISO 639 6
lao
bod
Glottocode
laoo1244
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Isolating
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