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Lao (ພາສາລາວ phaasaa laao) is the official language of Laos. It is a tonal language of the Tai family, and is closely related to the language of the north-eastern Isan region of Thailand. The writing system of Lao is an abugida and is closely related to the writing system used in Thai.Lao language can be divided into five main dialects :
Vientiane Lao is widely understood throughout the country.
1 Tones
Vientiane Lao has six tones: Low, Mid, High, Rising, High and Low Falling. Pitch levels vary from the speaker's ethnicity and geographic location. Luang Prabang residents use five tones: Mid Falling Rising, Low Rising, Mid, High Falling and Mid Rising.
2 Script
The Lao alphabet is based on the same primitive alphabet as the Thai script, adapted itself from a southern Indian script borrowed by KhmerKhmer stands for several things related to Cambodia: The Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong to The Khmer language The Khmer Empire, which ruled over much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries. See als scholarship. It is made up of 33 consonants and 28 vowels representing respectively 21 and 27 original sounds, written from left to right.
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Languages of Laos
Tai-Kadai languagesThe Tai-Kadai languages are a language family found in Southeast Asia and southern China. They were formerly considered to be part of the Sino-Tibetan family, but are now classified independently as the Tai-Kadai family. They may be related to the Austron
Tonal languages
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