Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Thailand
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Thailand
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Khmer Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Thai
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
โปรด (Pord)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Isan
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Isan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Northern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Northern Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
6,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Southern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
20.00 million
  
37
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
40.00 million
  
15
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
ภาษาไทย
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
French Name
arabe
  
thaï
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Thailändisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1283 CE
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Tai
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Thai
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Thai
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Thai Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
th
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
tha
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
tha
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
tha
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
thai1261
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
47-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating