Complex sentence: The creation of this dialect goes back to the French colonization of Indochina, although since Laos' independence from France, and the Communist takeover, the number of French speakers is in steady decline.
Split into simpler sentences: The creation of this dialect goes back to the French colonization of Indochina. Although, since Laos' independence from france and the Communist takeover of Laos, the number of French speakers has been in steady decline.