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  2. Lao language - Wikipedia

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    A Lao speaker. 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.

  3. Culture of Laos - Wikipedia

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    Lao, the official language of Laos, is a monosyllabic tone based language from the Tai-Kadai family as spoken in Vientiane. There are 19 million Lao speakers in Thailand and 3 million in Laos, a reflection of geopolitical history .

  4. Laotian Chams - Wikipedia

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    It is the same as the language spoken by the Chams in Cambodia. The other variety, Eastern Cham, is not spoken, or is very unlikely to be spoken. Nowadays they mostly speak Laotian. In Champasak, where the Khmer influence is quite large, the Khmer is used by the Chams there. [1]

  5. Comparison of Lao and Isan - Wikipedia

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    Lao is a Tai language spoken by 7 million people in Laos and 23 million people in northeast Thailand. [1] After the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese conflict of 1893 , the Lao-speaking world was politically split at the Mekong River , with the left bank eventually becoming modern Laos and the right bank the Isan region of Thailand (formerly ...

  6. Khmu language - Wikipedia

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    Khmu is the language of the Khmu people of the northern Laos region. It is also spoken in adjacent areas of Vietnam, Thailand and China.Khmu lends its name to the Khmuic branch of the Austroasiatic language family, the latter of which also includes Khmer and Vietnamese.

  7. Khmer Lao people - Wikipedia

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    The Khmer Lao speak variants of Lao that differ from each other and from the Lao spoken in Laos. A particular dialect called Lao Kha is a creole language mixing vocabulary from Lao and various highland minorities languages. The Khmer Lao traditionally live along the other minorities of northern Cambodia, notably the Brao, the Kavet and the ...

  8. Tai languages - Wikipedia

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    The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including Standard Thai or Siamese, the national language of Thailand; Lao or Laotian, the national language of Laos; Myanmar's Shan language; and Zhuang, a major language in the Southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, spoken by the Zhuang people (壯 ...

  9. Lao people - Wikipedia

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    The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. They primarily speak the Lao language, which belongs to the Kra–Dai language family. Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in ...