People living in southern Laos sekong can speak 14 languages.It can be seen clearly that Xekong Province is a multilingual community. People in Xekong speak not only their
own mother tongue but also can speak Lao which is the national language of Lao PDR. Moreover, they speak the
languages of the other tribes living in nearby villages so that there can be good relationships and mutual
understanding between them. There is no doubt that most of them are multilingual speakers. Since different
languages have different functions in a multilingual society, collision is out of the question.
Cultural and linguistic diversity in Xekong Province is harmless. Cultural and linguistic
Cultural diversity of the province xekong cause a change of language, such as pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence construction.