1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- 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
Maldivian Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
හලෝ (halō)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
โปรด (Pord)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Northern Thai
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Northern Thailand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Southern Thai
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
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?
16.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Thailändisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Thai
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating