Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
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Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
828
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2127
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
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
Merhaba
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
günaydın
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
lütfen
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
üzgünüm
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Hoşçakal
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Laos
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Laos
How Many People Speak
480,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Laos
How Many People Speak
140,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
96
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
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
turc
lao
German Name
Türkisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Turkish
Lao people
Origin
c. 1350
1283 CE
Language Family
Turkic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Tai
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Lao
Language Position
1943
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
lao
ISO 639 2/B
tur
lao
ISO 639 3
tur
lao
ISO 639 6
tur
lao
Glottocode
nucl1301
laoo1244
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Isolating