1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Thailand
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Thailand
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
早上好
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Isan
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
20.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Thailändisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Not Available
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
Not Available
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
47-AAA-b
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available