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Countries

Countries

Thailand
Burma

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Thailand
Burundi, Gambia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Not spoken in any of the countries

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.
  • Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
  • Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.

Similar To

Lao Language
Kinyarwanda Language

Derived From

Khmer Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4421
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

325
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4419
9 60
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Scripts

Thai
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Bwakeye

Thank You

ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Urakoze

How Are You?

คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Urakomeye?

Good Night

นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Ijoro ryiza

Good Evening

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Mwiriwe

Good Afternoon

สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Mwiriwe

Good Morning

อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Mwaramutse

Please

โปรด (Pord)
Ndagusavye

Sorry

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Ndasubiza

Bye

ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
N’agasaga

I Love You

ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Ndi waramutse

Excuse Me

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Ndasaba

Dialects

Dialect 1

Isan
Rwanda-Rundi

Where They Speak

Isan
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Northern Thai
Ha

Where They Speak

Northern Thailand
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00990,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Southern Thai
Shubi

Where They Speak

Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00153,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

96
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million8.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.85 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

20.00 million8.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ภาษาไทย
íkiRǔndi

Alternative Names

Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Rundi, Urundi

French Name

thaï
rundi

German Name

Thailändisch
Kirundi

Pronunciation

[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[kɪˈrʊndi]

Ethnicity

Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

History

Origin

1283 CE
1500

Language Family

Tai-Kadai Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Tai
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Thai
No early forms

Standard Forms

Thai
Kirundi

Language Position

4786
1 120
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Signed Forms

Thai Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

th
rn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tha
run

ISO 639 2/B

tha
run

ISO 639 3

tha
run

ISO 639 6

tha
run

Glottocode

thai1261
rund1242

Linguasphere

47-AAA-b
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Thai and Kirundi Alphabets

Thai and Kirundi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Thai and Kirundi. In Thai Alphabets there are 44 letters while in Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Thai and Kirundi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Thai and Kirundi languages. The Thai phonology consist Thai vowels and Thai consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Thai greetings vs Kirundi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Thai and Kirundi are Most Spoken Languages.

All Thai and Kirundi Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Thai and Kirundi dialects. Various dialects of Thai and Kirundi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Thai are spoken in different Thai Speaking Countries whereas Kirundi Dialects are spoken in different Kirundi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Thai vs Kirundi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Thai dialects include: Isan, Northern Thai. Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi , Ha. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Thai and Kirundi Speaking population

Thai and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Thai and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of Thai and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Thai and Kirundi on Thai vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Thai and Kirundi Language Codes

Thai and Kirundi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Thai and Kirundi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.