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Isan or Northeastern Thai ( autonym: ภาษาลาว / ພາສາລາວ, IPA: [pʰáː săː láːw]; Thai: ภาษาอีสาน, romanized : Phasa Isan) refers to the local development of the Lao language in Thailand, after the political split of the Lao-speaking world at the Mekong River at the conclusion of the Franco ...
Isan is a member of the Lao-Phuthai branch of the Tai-Kadai language family. It is spoken by about 22 million people in the Isan region in the north east of Thailand, and also in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand.
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Isan or Northeastern Thai refers to the local development of the Lao language in Thailand, after the political split of the Lao-speaking world at the Mekong River at the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893. The language is still referred to as Lao by native speakers.
Before the central government introduced the Thai alphabet and language in regional schools, the people of Isan wrote in the Lao alphabet, a very similar script that Thai adopted. Most people still speak the Isan language, a dialect of the Lao language, as their first language.
The Lao language (orange) and the Isan language (yellow). The Mekong river forms the border between the countries of Laos and Thailand, and the Lao and Isan languages. Lao is a Tai language spoken by 7 million people in Laos and 23 million people in northeast Thailand.
Isan is the name for a number of closely related dialects which are spoken in the Northeast of Thailand and neighbouring countries. Isan is mostly used for informal communication. Isan consists of a number of dialects, there is no official language. People who speak one dialect usually understand the others.
