Countries
Thailand
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Lao Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Khmer Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
3210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4421
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
โปรด (Pord)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Isan
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Isan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Olonets
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
Olonets
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
913
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.85 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
20.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
Русский
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Russki
French Name
thaï
russe
German Name
Thailändisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Russians
Origin
1283 CE
1000 AD
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Tai
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Russian
Language Position
477
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
rus
ISO 639 2/B
tha
rus
ISO 639 3
tha
rus
ISO 639 6
tha
rus
Glottocode
thai1261
russ1263
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic