Countries
Thailand
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Lao Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Khmer Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4444
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
3212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4432
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
sannu
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
gode ku
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
yaya dai
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
barka da rana
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
mai kyau safe
Please
โปรด (Pord)
Don Allah
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
yi hakuri
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
sai anjima
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Isan
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Isan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Niger
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Niger
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
920
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
40.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
thaï
haoussa
German Name
Thailändisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
1283 CE
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Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Chadic
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
No early forms
Standard Forms
Thai
Hausa
Language Position
4734
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
hau
ISO 639 2/B
tha
hau
ISO 639 3
tha
hau
ISO 639 6
tha
hau
Glottocode
thai1261
haus1257
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional