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Lao: The Official Language Of Laos. Lao is among the tonal languages of Southeast Asia's Tai-Kadai language family. The major Lao dialects are Southern Lao, Vientiane Lao, Western Lao, Central Lao, Northeastern Lao, and Northern Lao.
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ, [pʰáː.sǎː láːw]), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language.
Lao or Laotian – the official language of Laos. The Lao language belongs to Tai languages which are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family. Of which, the Tai-Kadai languages are the most widely spoken in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Southern Chinese.
Lao language, one of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia, and the official language of Laos. Lao occurs in various dialects, which differ among themselves at least as much as Lao as a group differs from the Tai dialects of northeastern Thailand.
Lao is a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in Laos, and also in Cambodia and Vietnam. In 2015 there were about 3.4 million native speakers of Lao in Laos, and another 800,000 people spoke it as a second language.
The official language is Lao, a language of the Tai-Kadai language family. More than half of the population speaks Lao natively. The remainder, particularly in rural areas, speak ethnic minority languages. The Lao alphabet, which evolved sometime between the 13th and 14th centuries, was derived from the Khmer script. [135]
Lao or Laotian is a language and is the official language of Laos. [1] . It is also spoken in the northeast part of Thailand. [2] . Lao, like the other languages of Laos, is written in an abugida writing system. The languages has variations, but the Vientiane dialect is considered the standard written form of Lao. [3]