I. Introduction to Laos:
1, also known as Lao, is the official language of Laos. Old sayings are distributed in Indochina Peninsula, which are close to Thai, but there are some differences in the appearance of words. Laoyu is a branch of Zhuang-Dong language family, which has absorbed a large number of Sanskrit, Pali and Cambodian loanwords in history.
2. Reduplicated words and quantifiers are quite abundant. Word order and function words are the basic means to express grammatical meaning; In a sentence, the subject comes before the predicate, the object and complement come after the predicate verb, and the modifier of the noun comes after the noun. When numerals, quantifiers and nouns are combined, the order is nouns, numerals and quantifiers. The basic vocabulary is mostly monosyllabic words. After the introduction of Buddhism, it absorbed a large number of Pali, Sanskrit and Mon-Khmer loanwords, which were mainly used in religion and aristocratic life.
Second, everyday language:
1, Lao is a phonetic language, which requires very high pronunciation. As long as the voice is slightly inaccurate, others will not understand it. Meanwhile, its sentence structure is fundamentally different from Chinese grammar. Some words are read backwards, and some words are read along. As a beginner, it is absolutely impossible to master them.
Besides, many of its words can't be pronounced accurately with Chinese characters, so they can only be pronounced with relatively close Chinese pronunciation. According to my practical experience, it is enough to master a certain vocabulary, and it is no harm to be inaccurate. And with the help of the language environment, people will help you correct your pronunciation in conversation, and at the same time improve your pronunciation accuracy by hearing your own standard pronunciation.