Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Thailand
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Thailand
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Khmer Language
  
Alphabets in
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Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Thai
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
Please
لطفا
  
โปรด (Pord)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Isan
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Isan
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Northern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Northern Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
6,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Southern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
20.00 million
  
37
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
40.00 million
  
15
Native Name
فارسی
  
ภาษาไทย
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
French Name
persan
  
thaï
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Thailändisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
1283 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tai
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Old Thai
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Thai
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Thai Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
th
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
tha
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
tha
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
tha
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
thai1261
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
47-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating