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