Countries
Thailand
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Hawaii
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4428
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
328
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4420
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
您好
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
谢谢
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
你好吗？
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
晚安
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
下午好
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
早上好
Please
โปรด (Pord)
请
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
遗憾
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
再见
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
我爱你
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Isan
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Isan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
thaï
cantonais
German Name
Thailändisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Han Chinese
Origin
1283 CE
17th century
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tai
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
No early forms
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
471
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
th
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
yue
ISO 639 2/B
tha
yue
ISO 639 3
tha
No data available
ISO 639 6
tha
yue
Glottocode
thai1261
cant1236
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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