"Laotian Sign Language". Sign languages in use in Laos include French Sign Language, American Sign Language, Thai Sign Language, Lao Sign Language (derived...

perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...

number of Laotian sign languages are used in areas with high rates of congenital deafness. French is used in government and commerce, and Laos is a member...

itself has never signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signal. Inscriptions on traffic signs are in Lao, the national language of Laos. However, English...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Vietnam and Laos. Thai Sign Language was acknowledged as "the national language of deaf people in Thailand" in August 1999, in a resolution signed by the Minister...

languages are part of a sign language area that includes indigenous sign languages of Laos and Thailand, though it is not known if they are genealogically...

administrative language and is also widely present in commerce, and is also studied by over a third of students in Laos. Consequently, the language enjoys a...

French protectorate of Laos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with...

[pʰáː sǎː láːw]), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand...

Sign Language family of Thailand; the deaf-community sign languages of Vietnam, Thailand and Laos may be genealogically related, or there may be a history...

000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...

Yet the country of Laos has an official count of over forty-seven ethnicities divided into 149 sub-groups and 80 different languages. The Lao Loum have...

and later also in Laos. The earliest inhabitants of Laos—Australo-Melanesians—were followed by members of the Austro-Asiatic language family. These earliest...

Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater for other belligerents during the Vietnam War. The Franco–Lao Treaty of Amity and Association (signed 22 October...

continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that particular...

sign languages of Vietnam (especially to Hai Phong Sign Language), and possibly Laotian sign languages, but the nature of these connections (whether areal...

The Gadjah Mada University of Indonesia and National University of Laos agreed to sign an education agreement. The Indonesian government also cooperated...

sub-grouping of the Lao language such as by native speakers, Laotian Lao and many linguists, it is also classified as a separate language in light of its unique...

pictorial signs or otherwise simplified and standardized their signs to overcome language barriers, and enhance traffic safety. Such pictorial signs use symbols...

of sign languages are spoken throughout Asia. These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as...

Laotian Americans (Lao: ຄົນອາເມລິກາລາວ) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Laos. Laotian Americans are included in the larger category of Asian...

Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean sign languages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the...

of Laos from 1945 to the present. Note: this article follows the system for transliterating Lao names used in Martin Stuart-Fox's History of Laos. It...

Laos–Russia relations are the current and historical relations between Laos and the Russian Federation. On 31 December 1991, Laos recognised the Russian...

English language and excludes indirect translations from other languages. A black triangle (within the standard down-arrow-shape of stop signs) was a symbol...

MYA, China CHN, and Cambodia KH (ISO codes), Thailand uses T (DSIT code), Laos LAO, and Vietnam VN (coincident ISO and DSIT codes). The Geneva Convention...

romanized: kib; code: LAK; sign: ₭ or ₭N; French: kip; officially: ເງີນກີບລາວ, lit. "currency Lao kip") is the currency of Laos since 1955. Historically...

Yemen. Cambodia, Laos, and South Korea are all signatories, but have yet to ratify the convention. Other countries have not signed the convention; however...

bàθà]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's...