Countries
Thailand
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4457
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
327
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4450
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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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Sawubona
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
unjani
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
โปรด (Pord)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
bye
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Isan
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Isan
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million12.00 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
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
thaï
zoulou
German Name
Thailändisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Zulu people
Origin
1283 CE
19
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tai
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Thai
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4787
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
zul
ISO 639 2/B
tha
zul
ISO 639 3
tha
zul
ISO 639 6
tha
zul
Glottocode
thai1261
zulu1248
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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