Lao Words & Writing

BEAUTIFUL LAO LANGUAGE SCRIPT !
LET'S LEARN HOW TO HAND-WRITE THEM !
THIS APP BREAKS THEM DOWN STROKE BY STROKE !

• SPIN THE WHEEL TO EXPLORE
It's so easy and natural.

• ADD TO FAVORITES
Save the word you like for the future use.

• REAL HUMAN VOICE
Including the alphabet, it plays them all.

• ENGLISH MEANINGS
All of the words have their meanings in English.

• LAO ARTS & CULTURE
Lao cuisine, music and culture illustrations.

You can select the word in alphabetical order (English meanings) by clicking “Word” in the menu bar. Basic everyday Lao words!

The "Tone" button is for the main tones of the Lao language.

Click on the "ABC" button in the menu bar, you can get the consonant letters , various vowel forms and their corresponding examples. They are explained one by one.

When you get a hang of the Lao handwritings, your understanding of the Lao culture will improve naturally.

There are over 15 million people who speak the language of Laos. It is closely related to Chinese. Spoken Lao is mutually intelligible with the language of Thai. The two languages are written with slightly different scripts but are linguistically similar.

There are no articles in Lao like "the" or "a" in English. Lao nouns do not have a grammatical gender. And the verbs do not have grammatical tenses, such as go/went/gone.The grammar is similar to Chinese except for some word orders. The numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, ...) sound pretty much like those of Chinese. And both languages have tones.