Countries
Countries
Thailand
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Thailand
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Not Available
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Lao Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
44
24
53
32
Phonology
How Many Vowels
32
21
20
17
How Many Consonants
44
33
33
23
Scripts
Thai
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
4
3
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ND
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
ND
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ND
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
ND
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
ND
Please
โปรด (Pord)
ND
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
ND
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
ND
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
ND
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
ND
Dialects
Dialect 1
Isan
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Isan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
10
1,400,000.00
26
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
13
1,200,000.00
24
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
8
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
9
9
6
6
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
27
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.85 %
23
0.24 %
99+
Native Speakers
20.00 million
37
13.00 million
99+
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million
15
Not Available
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
thaï
khmer central
German Name
Thailändisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Khmer, Northern Khmer
History
Origin
1283 CE
14
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Thai
Modern Khmer
Language Position
47
34
Not Available
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
th
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
khm
ISO 639 2/B
tha
khm
ISO 639 3
tha
khm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
thai1261
khme1253
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
Not Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating
