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Laos
Laos is a small country in Southeast Asia. It borders Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), and China.
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What languages are spoken in Laos?
laotian
They speak Laotian, or Lao, which is very similar to Thai. There are various dialects that different hill tribes speak too, which are quite different from Laotian.
In Laos, they speak Lao.
Some might speak Thai, but the main language is Lao
...with lao, or laotian, being number 1.
following are thai, english, and french
along with small populations of chinese, hmong, and khmer-speaking people.
Lao, english, and french
Laotians speak Lao, and then French in official circles--but no longer as an official language.
Laos
Qaib Pronounced "Qhi" with the I sound like the pronouciation from the aphabete "I". Not "e" sound like.
Why are miao's also called Hmong?
Hmong is only a group of the Miao. Not all Miao are consider Hmong. Like Qho Xiong in Western Hunan are also consider Miao. Miao is only an umbrella term in China for tribal minorities.
Can a foreigner own land in Laos?
According to businessinasia.com:
Laos follows the Communist form of land ownership. All land belongs to the people and is controlled by the State. Lao citizens are granted land use ownership rights but the system does not represent fee simple ownership of land. Foreigners are prohibited from owning land. Foreigners can lease land although generally the lease needs to be 30 years in length.
As of July 2014, Choummaly Sayasone is the President of Laos. Thongsing Thammavong is the country's Prime Minister. The estimated population of Laos is 6,695,166.
A type of traditional culture in Laos where everyone, at a certain age has to do.
Why did such a large number of Hmong immigrants choose to settle in Minnesota and Wisconsin?
Many churches in Wisconsin and Minnesota - mostly Lutheran - sponsored Hmong refugees when they initially arrived in the U.S. in 1975, providing jobs and housing. Over the past three decades, their numbers have grown in those two states as their overseas relatives have arrived to join them.
Who is the Minister to the Prime Minister's Office for Laos?
Bouasy Lovansay is the Minister to the Prime Minister's Office for Laos.
How many ethnic groups are in Laos?
Lao Loum (lowland) 67%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong and the Yao (Mien) 9%, Vietnamese 2% Laos recognizes 68 different ethnic groups in its territory.
Why the Laos country have silent S?
It doesn't. When we speak englsh we use the english name for countries and places, and that includes places that in the local language would have, for example, a silent 's'.
The habit of pronouncing Laos with a silent 's' is an invention of British backpackers who'd never heard of the country before they visited it, in the mistaken belief it was correct because that's how the locals say it (in the same way a Parisian would say 'Pari').
North Americans have a tendency to pronounce it correctly with the hard 's', as they would have been exposed to the correct english pronounciation since the time of the Vietnam war. This is nothing to do with differences in British and American english; rather a bad case of widespread, albeit well-meaning, mis-pronounciation.
The Vietnam per capita income average in 2007 was 832 dollars.
