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Jru' is the native language of the Jru' people, a hill tribe indigenous to the isolated mountains in Champasak, Sekong and Attapeu Provinces in the central part of extreme southern Laos. [2] The variety described here is the most-studied variety that is spoken in Paksong District , Champasak in the towns of Paksong , Houeikong , Tateng , and ...
The SEAlang Library is an online library that hosts Southeast Asian linguistic reference materials.. Established in 2005 and publicly launched on April 1, 2006, [1] it was initially funded from the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program of the U.S. Department of Education, with matching funds from computational linguistics research centers.
Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ [ʔák.sɔ̌ːn láːw]) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos. Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script , was also used to write the Isan language , but was replaced by the Thai script .
Laos (/ ˈ l ɑː oʊ s / ⓘ, / ˈ l aʊ s /, / ˈ l ɑː ɒ s /, or / ˈ l eɪ ɒ s /; Lao: ລາວ, Lao pronunciation:, Lāo), or commonly referred to its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to ...
Since Lao culture is stratified based on the age, occupation, wealth or clout of the speaker, one must afford differing amounts of respect based on the discrepancy between one person and another. That affects language as well; to make language more polite, more formal language, including of pronouns (which can otherwise be dropped) and more ...
Laos, [c] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), [d] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12] Its capital and most populous city is Vientiane.
The main outcomes of the program were the first officially approved Isan language curriculum for primary and secondary school students, the first municipal multilingual Thai-Isan-English road signage (featuring Tai Noi) in Northeast Thailand, children's tracing books for learning Tai Noi script, a standardized Tai Noi script presented in ...
Something of, from, or related to Laos, a country in Southeast Asia; Lao people (people from Laos, or of Lao descent) The Lao language; Lao Rongzhi (born 1974), Chinese female serial killer; Lao script, the writing system used to write the Lao language Lao (Unicode block), a block of Lao characters in Unicode