Countries
Thailand
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
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)
-
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 in
Alphabets
4437
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
3212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4421
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Thai
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
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
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
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
95
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
Origin
1283 CE
c. 1440
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
-
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
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
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