Thai leid

Tai leid o the Kra-Dai leid faimily

Thai (ภาษาไทย Phasa Thai[4] [pʰāːsǎːtʰāj] ( listen)) is the naitional an offeecial leid o Thailand an the native leid o the Thai fowk, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member o the Tai group o the Tai-Kadai leid faimily. Historical linguists hinnae can definitively link the Tai-Kadai leids tae ony ither leid faimily. Some wirds in Thai is borraed frae Pali, Sanskrit an Auld Khmer. It is a tonal an analytic leid. Thai haes a complex orthography an relational markers an aa. Thai is mutually intelligible wi Lao[5].

Thai
Siamese
ภาษาไทย, Phasa Thai
Pronunciation[pʰāːsǎːtʰāj]
Region
EthnicityCentral Thai, Thai Chinese, Malaysian Siamese
Native speakers
20–36 million (2000)[1]
44 million L2 speakers with Lanna, Isan, Southern Thai, Northern Khmer[1]
Tai–Kadai
  • Tai
    • Southwestern Tai
      • Chiang Saen
        • Thai
  • Thai script
  • Thai Braille
  • Khom Thai (religious use)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Thailand
 ASEAN[2]
Recognised minority
leid in
 Cambodia (Koh Kong)
 Malaysia (Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Hulu Perak district)
 Myanmar (Tanintharyi)
Regulatit biRoyal Society of Thailand
Leid codes
ISO 639-1th
ISO 639-2tha
ISO 639-3tha
Glottologthai1261[3]
Linguasphere47-AAA-b
A native Thai speaker, recordit in Bangkok

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