Jun 17, 2022 · A Lao speaker. Lao, sometimes referred to as Laotian ( ລາວ, [láːw] 'Lao' or ພາສາລາວ, [pʰáːsǎːláːw] 'Lao language'), is a Kra–Dai language of the Lao people. It is spoken in Laos, where it is the official language for around 7 million people, as well as in northeast Thailand, where it is used by around 23 million people, usually referred to as Isan.
- pʰáːsǎː láːw
- Laos, Thailand (Isan), Cambodia (Stung Treng, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri)
3 days ago · isan or northeastern thai ( thai: ภาษาอีสาน, ภาษาไทยถิ่นตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ, ภาษาไทยถิ่นอีสาน, ภาษาไทยอีสาน, ภาษาลาวอีสาน) refers to the local development of the lao language in thailand, after the political split of the lao-speaking world at the mekong river, with the left bank eventually becoming modern laos and the right bank the isan region of …
- 13-16 million (2005), 22 million (2013), (L1 and L2)
- Thailand
- Kra–Dai, TaiSouthwestern Tai languagesLao–PhutaiLaoIsan
- Tai Noi, (former, secular), Tai Tham, (former, religious), Thai alphabet, (de facto)
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2 days ago · Thai script was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.0. The Unicode block for Thai is U+0E00–U+0E7F. It is a verbatim copy of the older TIS-620 character set which encodes the vowels เ, แ, โ, ใ and ไ before the consonants they follow, and thus Thai, Lao , Tai Viet and New Tai Lue are the only ...
- left-to-right
- Medium
- Thai
- Standard form:, Thai, Southern Thai, Non-standard form:, Lanna, Isan, Pattani Malay and others
3 days ago · The script has developed over more than 1000 years from a variant of Siddhaṃ script which was used in Eastern India, where the characteristic top line transformed into a distinct round umbrella shape due to the influence of palm leaf manuscripts and also being influenced by the neighbouring scripts from the Western and Southern regions.
- left-to-right
- Odia, Sanskrit, Kui, Sora, Kuvi, Santali, Chhattisgarhi, Halbi, Sambalpuri
- Oriya
- Bengali–Assamese, Tirhuta, Nāgarī, Nepalese
Jun 19, 2022 · v. t. e. The Khmer script ( Khmer: អក្សរខ្មែរ, Âksâr Khmêr [ʔaksɑː kʰmae]) [3] is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It is also used to write Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand. Khmer is written from left to right.
Jun 27, 2022 · Lao, sometimes referred to as Laotian (ລາວ, [láːw] 'Lao' or ພາສາລາວ, [pʰáːsǎːláːw] 'Lao language'), is a Kra–Dai language of the Lao people. It is spoken in Laos, where it is the official language for around 7 million people, as well as in northeast Thailand, where it used by around 23 million people, usually referred to as Isan.