Countries
Thailand
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Lao Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Khmer Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
3224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4423
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Isan
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Isan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Wu
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Yue
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
910
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
thaï
chinois
German Name
Thailändisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Han
Origin
1283 CE
1250 BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
No early forms
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Chinese
Language Position
471
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
zho
ISO 639 2/B
tha
chi
ISO 639 3
tha
zho
ISO 639 6
tha
zho
Glottocode
thai1261
sini1245
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating