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[1] [2] Aramaic was the common language of Roman Judaea, and was thus also spoken by Jesus' disciples. Although according to new findings Hebrew was also a spoken language among Jews in Judea during the 1st century AD. [3] The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, where he spent most of his time, were populated by Aramaic-speaking ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Isan or Northeastern Thai (autonym: ภาษาลาว / ພາສາລາວ, IPA: [pʰáː.sǎː láːw]; Thai: ภาษาอีสาน RTGS: 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-Siamese crisis of 1893.
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]
Phuan (Laos, Thailand) Thai Song (Thailand) Thai (Central/Standard Thai, Siamese; Thailand) Tai Dón (White Tai, Tai Kao; Vietnam, China) Tai Daeng (Vietnam) Tai Meuay (Laos) Tay Tac (Vietnam) Thu Lao (Vietnam) Lao–Phutai dialects (4) Lao (Laos; except Luang Prabang dialect is classified as Chiang Saen languages.) Lao Nyo (Cambodia, Thailand ...