Countries
Japan
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Japan
Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9944
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
532
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1444
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kana
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Isan
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Isan
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hakata
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
kansai
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
japonais
thaï
German Name
Japanisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
1185
1283 CE
Language Family
Japonic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Japanese
Thai
Language Position
847
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
tha
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
tha
ISO 639 3
jpn
tha
ISO 639 6
jpn
tha
Glottocode
nucl1643
thai1261
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating