- ISO 639
lo- Its own name
- ລາວ
- Script
- Other-Brahmic
- Direction
- Left to right
Lao
Lao (ລາວ) is spoken by 5.5M people across 1 territory in CLDR, and is official nationally in 1 of them. Laos holds 100% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into Lao covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
5.5M
Laos 100%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 1 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
3.6M
0%100%
66% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.
Concentration
100%
0%100%
One market with a diaspora: Laos holds 100% of speakers. Take the tone and conventions from there.
Territories
1
1 where it is official nationally, 1 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$64B
Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.
Translation rate
1.00×
1.0×1.6×+
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate used across this site's estimators.
Where Lao is spoken
Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.
| Territory | Share of that market | Speakers | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LaosLA | 69% | 5.5M | 3.6M | official |
CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.
What it takes to ship
The work that is not translation.
Writing system
Other-Brahmic
Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Bundle a webfont: platform defaults do not reliably cover this script.
Plural categories
1
No grammatical plural agreement, so counted messages need one arm.
Rate index
1.00×
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate.