Thai

Also known as Central Thai, Siamese, Thai language, Siamese language

Tai language

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ABVD: Thai

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human language
Subclass of: Southwestern Tai
Named after: Thai people
Country: Thailand
Image: Thai Language (in Thai).svg

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influenced by: Teochew
short name: тайаг
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1651
Wikimedia language code: th
Commons category: Thai language
topic's main category: Category:Thai language
native label: ภาษาไทย
linguistic typology: analytic language
category for films in this language: Category:Thai-language films
indigenous to: Thailand
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/THA
different from: Tai
language regulatory body: Royal Society of Thailand
P10369: knight
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 40000000
P11012: Category:People from Varanasi
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has tense: future tense
P13311: Haematopus
studied by: Thai studies
female form of label: la langue thaïlandaise

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Encyclopedic overview

A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok Thai, or Central Thai (historically Siamese; Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai, Mon, Lao Wiang, and Phuan people in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country. It is the sole official language of Thailand.

Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai has a complex orthography and system of relational markers. Spoken Thai, depending on standard sociolinguistic factors such as age, gender, class, spatial proximity, and the urban/rural divide, is partly mutually intelligible with Lao, Isan, and some fellow Thai topolects. These languages are written with slightly different scripts, but are linguistically similar and effectively form a dialect continuum.

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