Countries
Thailand
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Lao Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Khmer Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4430
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
326
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4424
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Ħello
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Grazzi
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Kif int?
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
โปรด (Pord)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Skużani!
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
Ċaw
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Isan
Qormi
Where They Speak
Isan
Malta
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Malta
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Not Present
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
-
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
92
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
Malti
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Malti
French Name
thaï
maltais
German Name
Thailändisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Maltese
Origin
1283 CE
c. 1470
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
No early forms
Standard Forms
Thai
Maltese
Language Position
4725
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
tha
mlt
ISO 639 3
tha
mlt
ISO 639 6
tha
mlt
Glottocode
thai1261
malt1254
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic