Asian vs Lao

Asian and Lao both are nouns.

Asian and Lao both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Lao	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Lao is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Lao is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Lao: a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Lao (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos
	a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais

Asian (adjective)	Lao (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand

Difference between Asian and Lao

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