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Countries

Countries
Thailand

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
44 24

Phonology

How Many Vowels
32 21

How Many Consonants
44 33

Scripts
Thai

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 29

Dialect 2
Northern Thai

Where They Speak
Northern Thailand

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 3
Southern Thai

Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00 39

Total No. Of Dialects
9 9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million 27

Speaking Population
0.85 % 24

Native Speakers
20.00 million 37

Second Language Speakers
40.00 million 21

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
47 44

Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
th

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

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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.

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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.

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