Malay vs Lao - Language

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Languages bring people closer. If you want to travel abroad, the Justlearn team has created useful stats for you. Here is our comparision.

Learn Malay

Justlearn has 1 Malay tutors, who can teach online through video lessons. The average hourly rate is $18.00.
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Learn Lao

Justlearn has 1 Lao tutors, who can teach online through video lessons. The average hourly rate is $15.00.
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Malay Language

Mastering Malay will take from you 36 hours or 900 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated - point.

Lao Language

Learning Lao might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is 2.

Malay Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Malay in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and East Timor, Parts of Thailand.
Number of native speakers is about 77,000,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 300,000,000. The biggest country in which Malay is used as a native language is Malaysia.

Lao Community

Native speakers of Lao are mostly from Laos and are about 3,000,000 people.
Lao are spoken fluently by 3,200,000 people.
The language is spoken in Laos, Thailand, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, France, Thailand, and USA..

Malay Origin

Malay came from Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

Lao Origin

Tai-Kadai language family is the origin of Lao language.