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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Laos

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Laos, Northeastern Thailand

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
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Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Hindi
Thai Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4853
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1228
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3627
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Thai and Lao Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)

Please

कृपया
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
Sôhk dii der

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Vientiane Lao

Where They Speak

Nepal
Laos

How Many People Speak

790,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Northern Lao

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
Laos

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.003,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Central Lao

Where They Speak

Nepal
Laos

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.22 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao

French Name

népalais
lao

German Name

Nepali
Laotisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
pʰáːsǎː láːw

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Lao people

History

Origin

19 BC
1283 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Tai

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early forms

Standard Forms

Nepali
Lao

Language Position

5943
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Lao Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
lo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
lao

ISO 639 2/B

nep
lao

ISO 639 3

npi
lao

ISO 639 6

nep
lao

Glottocode

nepa1254
laoo1244

Linguasphere

12
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Isolating

Nepali and Lao Alphabets

Nepali and Lao Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Lao. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Nepali and Lao languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Lao languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Lao greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Lao are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali and Lao Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Lao dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Lao language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Lao Dialects are spoken in different Lao speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Lao Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Lao dialects include: Vientiane Lao , Northern Lao. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Lao Speaking population

Nepali and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Lao on Nepali vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Lao Language Codes

Nepali and Lao language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Lao Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.