noun
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a member of a Buddhist people of Laos and NE Thailand, related to the Thais
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the language of this people, closely related to Thai
adjective
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Origin of Laotian
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About two weeks after the candidate list without Valy's name was released, prominent Laotian activist Joseph Akaravong publicly endorsed her anyway, sharing her CV to his nearly 700,000 Facebook followers.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
There were 118 tourists and 29 locals, including four crew, on board the boat when it struck underwater rocks, according to an official report carried by the Laotian Times.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Indeed, the number of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian people killed by land mines and unexploded ordnance just since the war ended exceeds the some 58,000 American personnel who died during the war itself.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025
Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese and Hmong refugees are “the human legacies of the wars in which the U.S. was implicated.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024
The other two are Laotian boys who as far as anyone can tell are perfectly fine.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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