Countries
Thailand
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Lao Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Khmer Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
326
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4423
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
سلام
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
متشکرم
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
صبح به خیر
Please
โปรด (Pord)
لطفا
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
متاسف
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Isan
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Isan
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
912
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
فارسی
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
thaï
persan
German Name
Thailändisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Persian people
Origin
1283 CE
1500 BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Thai
Persian
Language Position
4723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
fas
ISO 639 2/B
tha
per
ISO 639 3
tha
pes
ISO 639 6
tha
pers
Glottocode
thai1261
fars1254
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic