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Countries

Thailand

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Thailand

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Burma, Cambodia, Laos

Regulated By

Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)

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.

Similar To

Lao Language

Derived From

Khmer Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 24 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 33 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Thai

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)

Thank You

ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)

How Are You?

คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)

Good Night

นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)

Good Evening

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)

Good Afternoon

สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)

Good Morning

อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)

Please

โปรด (Pord)

Sorry

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)

Bye

ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)

I Love You

ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)

Excuse Me

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Isan

Where They Speak

Isan

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00

Rank: 29 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Northern Thai

Where They Speak

Northern Thailand

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00

Rank: 44 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Southern Thai

Where They Speak

Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00

Rank: 39 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million

Rank: 27 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.85 %

Rank: 24 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

20.00 million

Rank: 37 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ภาษาไทย

Alternative Names

Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang

French Name

thaï

German Name

Thailändisch

Pronunciation

[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]

Ethnicity

Central Thai and Thai Chinese

History

Origin

1283 CE

Language Family

Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

Tai

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Thai

Standard Forms

Thai

Language Position

Rank: 44 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Thai Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tha

ISO 639 2/B

tha

ISO 639 3

tha

ISO 639 6

tha

Glottocode

thai1261

Linguasphere

47-AAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Thai

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Thai Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Thai Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Thai. Thai phonology gives Thai vowels and Thai consonants. There are 32 vowels and 44 consonants in Thai language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Thai is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Thai language is given in detail in this section.

All Thai countries

Want to explore all Thai countries? About Thai language serves you with all Thai Speaking Countries. Countries that use Thai as official language are called as Thai countries.

Countries that use Thai as their National Language are: Thailand.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Thai as second language are: Thai is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Thai greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Thai Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Thai language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Thai language.Learn Thai greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank you: ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Good Morning: อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Good Evening: สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon: สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)

All Thai Language Codes

Get to know all Thai language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Thai Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.