Countries
Thailand
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Palau
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Lao Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4499
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
325
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4414
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Isan
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Isan
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Hakata
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Kansai
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
kansai
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
931
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
日本語
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Nihongo
French Name
thaï
japonais
German Name
Thailändisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1283 CE
1185
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Thai
Japanese
Language Position
478
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
tha
jpn
ISO 639 3
tha
jpn
ISO 639 6
tha
jpn
Glottocode
thai1261
nucl1643
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic