Countries
Thailand
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Thailand
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Khmer Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Thai
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
โปรด (Pord)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Isan
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Isan
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
20.00 million
  
37
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million
  
15
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
thaï
  
allemand
  
German Name
Thailändisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Germans
  
Origin
1283 CE
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tai
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Thai
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Thai
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
th
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tha
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
tha
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
tha
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
thai1261
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic