Countries
Thailand
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Lao Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
Khmer Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
326
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Hallo
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
dankjewel
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
goedemorgen
Please
โปรด (Pord)
alsjeblieft
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
sorry
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
vaarwel
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
pardon
Dialect 1
Isan
Gronings
Where They Speak
Isan
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
97
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
40.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
thaï
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Thailändisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Dutch people
Origin
1283 CE
AD 450-500
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Dutch
Language Position
4748
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
nld
ISO 639 2/B
tha
dut
ISO 639 3
tha
nld
ISO 639 6
tha
nld
Glottocode
thai1261
mode1257
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic