Countries
Thailand
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Thailand
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Hindi
Derived From
Khmer Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
3212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4436
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
कृपया
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Isan
Doteli
Where They Speak
Isan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
912
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
thaï
népalais
German Name
Thailändisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1283 CE
19 BC
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tai
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Thai
Nepali
Language Position
4759
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
th
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
nep
ISO 639 2/B
tha
nep
ISO 639 3
tha
npi
ISO 639 6
tha
nep
Glottocode
thai1261
nepa1254
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative