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Countries

Countries

Thailand
Vietnam

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Thailand
Vietnam

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Czech Republic

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.
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.

Similar To

Lao Language
Chinese Language

Derived From

Khmer Language
Chinese Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4437
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

3212
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4421
9 60
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Scripts

Thai
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Xin chào

Thank You

ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Cam on

How Are You?

คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Bạn khỏe không?

Good Night

นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Chúc ngủ ngon

Good Evening

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Chào buổi tối

Good Afternoon

สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Chào buổi trưa

Good Morning

อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Chào buổi sáng

Please

โปรด (Pord)
xin vui lòng

Sorry

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Xin lỗi

Bye

ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
Tạm biệt

I Love You

ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
tôi yêu bạn

Excuse Me

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Xin loi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Isan
Northern Vietnamese

Where They Speak

Isan
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Northern Thai
North-central Vietnamese

Where They Speak

Northern Thailand
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Southern Thai
Mid-Central Vietnamese

Where They Speak

Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0076,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

95
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million91.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.85 %1.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

20.00 million75.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ภาษาไทย
tiếng việt (㗂越)

Alternative Names

Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet

French Name

thaï
vietnamien

German Name

Thailändisch
Vietnamesisch

Pronunciation

[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)

Ethnicity

Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Vietnamese (Kinh) people

History

Origin

1283 CE
c. 1440

Language Family

Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Tai
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Thai
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese

Standard Forms

Thai
Standard Vietnamese

Language Position

4714
1 120
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Signed Forms

Thai Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

th
vi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tha
vie

ISO 639 2/B

tha
vie

ISO 639 3

tha
vie

ISO 639 6

tha
vie

Glottocode

thai1261
viet1252

Linguasphere

47-AAA-b
46-EBA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating

Thai and Vietnamese Alphabets

Thai and Vietnamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Thai and Vietnamese. In Thai Alphabets there are 44 letters while in Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Thai and Vietnamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Thai and Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Thai and Vietnamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Thai and Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese dialects. Various dialects of Thai and Vietnamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Thai are spoken in different Thai Speaking Countries whereas Vietnamese Dialects are spoken in different Vietnamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Thai vs Vietnamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Thai dialects include: Isan, Northern Thai. Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese , North-central Vietnamese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Thai and Vietnamese Speaking population

Thai and Vietnamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Thai and Vietnamese languages can be compared. The total count of Thai and Vietnamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 %. 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 Vietnamese on Thai vs Vietnamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Thai and Vietnamese Language Codes

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