1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Thailand
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Not Available
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
您好 (Nín hǎo)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Isan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Northern Thailand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.004,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
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
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating