Countries
Thailand
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Lao Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
3218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4436
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Isan
Vedda
Where They Speak
Isan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
-
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
91
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
40.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
thaï
singhalais
German Name
Thailändisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Sinhalese people
Origin
1283 CE
3
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Thai
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
sin
ISO 639 2/B
tha
sin
ISO 639 3
tha
sin
ISO 639 6
tha
sin
Glottocode
thai1261
sinh1246
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional