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Author Brier, Sam, author

Title Lao basics : an introduction to the Lao language / Sam Brier
Edition First edition
Published Clarendon, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2010
Singapore : Berkeley Books, [date of distribution not identified]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (100 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Tones; The Consonants; Lesson 1: Mid Consonants Part I; Lesson 2: Mid Consonants Part II; Lesson 3: Low Consonants Part I; Lesson 4: Low Consonants Part II; Lesson 5: High Consonants; Lesson 6: High Consonants with Special Spellings; Lesson 7: Alphabetical Order of Consonants; The Vowels; Lesson 8: Right Side Vowels; Lesson 9: Vocabulary A; Lesson 10: Top Vowels; Lesson 11: Vocabulary B; Lesson 12: Bottom Vowels; Lesson 13: Vocabulary C; Lesson 14: Left Side Only Vowels; Lesson 15: Vocabulary D; Lesson 16: Left & Top Vowels
Lesson 17: Vocabulary ELesson 18: Left & Right Vowels; Lesson 19: Vocabulary F; Lesson 20: Left, Top & Right Vowels; Lesson 21: Vocabulary G; Lesson 22: Alphabetical Order of Vowels; Lesson 23: Review; Lesson 24: Extra Vocabulary; Answer Key; Back Cover
Summary This is a concise, doit yourself guide to the Lao languageLao Basics teaches conversational Lao from the very beginning with an emphasis on reading and writing. Students of Thai will find Lao quite simple, as much of these two languages are the same or very similar. These languages derive from Sanskrit and share many of the same consonants, vowels, vocabulary and grammar. Lao Basics is organized so that you first learn to read Lao, write Lao, speak Lao and comprehend the 26 consonants in their tonal classes. Once you have mastered these you will study the 28 vowels in subsets. Within ea
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Subject Lao language -- Spoken Lao
Lao language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
Lao language -- Sound recordings for English speakers
Lao language
Lao language -- Spoken Lao
Genre/Form Sound recordings
Textbooks
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781462913626
1462913628