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Thai and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Thailand  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Thailand  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Lao Language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Khmer Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
32  
21

How Many Consonants
9  
1
44  
33

Scripts
Latin  
Thai  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  

Thank You
Danke  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)  

Please
bitte  
โปรด (Pord)  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  

Bye
Tschüs  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Isan  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Isan  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
20,000,000.00  
10

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Northern Thai  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Northern Thailand  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
6,000,000.00  
13

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Southern Thai  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
4,500,000.00  
8

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
9  
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
60.00 million  
27

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.85 %  
23

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
20.00 million  
37

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
40.00 million  
15

Native Name
Deutsch  
ภาษาไทย  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang  

French Name
allemand  
thaï  

German Name
Deutsch  
Thailändisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1283 CE  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Tai-Kadai Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Tai  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Thai  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Thai  

Language Position
9  
9
47  
34

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Thai Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
th  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
tha  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
tha  

ISO 639 3
deu  
tha  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
thai1261  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
47-AAA-b  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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All German and Thai Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Thai dialects. Various dialects of German and Thai language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Thai Dialects are spoken in different Thai speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Thai Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Thai dialects include: Isan , Northern Thai. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Thai Speaking population

German and Thai speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Thai languages can be compared. The total count of German and Thai Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Thai on German vs Thai where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Thai Language Codes

German and Thai language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Thai Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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