Countries
Thailand
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Lao Language
Armenian
Derived From
Khmer Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4424
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
327
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4417
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Isan
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Isan
Greece
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Griko
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Italy
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
925
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
thaï
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Thailändisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1283 CE
1500 BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Thai
Modern Greek
Language Position
4774
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
ell
ISO 639 2/B
tha
gre
ISO 639 3
tha
ell
ISO 639 6
tha
ells
Glottocode
thai1261
gree1276
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic