Lao Translation Services for All Professional Documents

Asian markets are quickly opening up to investors from English speaking countries, which is why investment in the Lao economy is increasing year on year. This makes business translation services necessary for anyone looking to have their specific business document translated.

Many of our clients who have expressed that before enlisting our services, they struggled with Lao language translation due to Laos being only recently accessible to global, modern markets. 

With our 15 years of experience assisting enterprises with international expansion, our business translation services always guarantee success with whatever translation needs your corporation may have. We can help with the specifics of translating English into Lao or vice versa, in over 120 other languages worldwide. When it’s time to broaden your horizons with the unique Lao language, Tomedes is your growth partner.

Our vendor list includes 20,000 interpreters, linguists, translators and localizers, so we always custom-pair each client with the best possible language professional, maintaining our customer-centric operating philosophy.

Our returning clients enlisting Tomedes for Lao translation include businesses operating in Laos, as well as corporate clients, traders, and exporters the world over. Laos also has a swiftly expanding agricultural, mineral resource, and tourism market, so the possibilities are limitless with the right linguistic assistance. 

Furthermore, due to Laos being an ASEAN member, Lao translation services can assist with either global or regional expansion into more developed nearby markets such as Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines or Vietnam.

If you’re looking to translate your documents for applications for institutions, it is also necessary to certify them. This certification can only be granted by qualified companies such as Tomedes.  We are certified by the ATA and the ISO, among others. This means our certified translation services can handle any immigration paperwork or rental contract or university application that you need to translate and certify.

While Thai and Burmese speakers might pick up spoken Lao very quickly, they often struggle more with the writing. Lao has 27 consonants and 33 vowels, while also including 7 consonantal ligatures and 4 tone marks. Our talent roster of interpreters includes many native Lao speakers who are also fluent in a host of other languages at native proficiency.

Here are some of the most useful basic phrases for travelers or anyone doing business in Laos:

• “Good morning.” -- Sabaï dii

• “How are you?” -- Sabaï dii bo ?

• “Fine, thank you. And you?” -- Sabaï dii, khop tchaï, lè tchao dè ?

• “I understand/don’t understand.” -- khaphachao khao tchaï / Khoï bo khao tchaï

• “Sorry.” -- Kho thot

• “Goodbye.” -- La kone

• “Welcome.” -- Nyinditonhab

• “Thank you very much.” -- Khop tchaï laï laï

• “Excuse me.” --  khaphachao / Kalounaa

Again, speakers of Thai or Burmese will experience a lot more success having conversations in Laotian than they will reading it, due to the major differences in these writing systems.

This despite that alphabets of most modern Tai-Kadai languages are based on the Indian Brahmi script.