1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Khmer Language
Sanskrit Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
โปรด (Pord)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
40.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
1.2.1 Native Name
1.2.2 Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
1.2.3 French Name
1.2.4 German Name
Thailändisch
Singhalesisch
1.3 Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Not Available
1.4 Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Sinhalese people
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
Old Thai
Sinhalese Prakrit
2.3.2 Standard Forms
2.3.3 Language Position
2.3.4 Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Not Available
2.4 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.3 ISO 639 2
3.3.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.4.1 ISO 639 2/B
3.6 ISO 639 3
3.7 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.9 Glottocode
3.11 Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
No data available
3.13 Types of Language
3.13.1 Language Type
3.13.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
3.14.1 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional