1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Thailand
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khmer Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Thai
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Isan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Northern Thailand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Thailändisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Thai Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
47-AAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating