1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Thailand
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Khmer Language
Not Available
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
Thai
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Isan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
20.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
40.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Thai Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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