Countries
Thailand
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Lao Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
3220
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4433
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
โปรด (Pord)
សូម
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
សូរី
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Isan
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Isan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
96
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million13.00 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
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
thaï
khmer central
German Name
Thailändisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1283 CE
14
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tai
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Thai
Modern Khmer
Language Position
471
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
khm
ISO 639 2/B
tha
khm
ISO 639 3
tha
khm
ISO 639 6
tha
khm
Glottocode
thai1261
khme1253
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating