Thai
Language
Thai
dialects, Thai alphabet, Thai orthography, Thai language
history and sources
Thai
language
Thai: Official language of
Number
of Thai Speakers: 60 million worldwide.
Language Classification: Tibeto-Burman of Southeast Asian
languages.
Thai
Dialects: Royal Thai is used by Thai Royals only.
Thai
Alphabet: Created by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great in 1283.
Sanskrit, Pali, and Khmer were model languages. Written from
left to right horizontally. Writing is based on Sanskrit and
Pali. No intervening spaces to form syllables, word, or
sentences.
Thai
Orthography: Tonal (five different tones), monosyllabic
language. 18 basic vowels (actually 28 so-called vowel
forms), and 44 consonants. Nine short monopthongs (single)
vowel sounds, plus diphtongs sounds.
Thai
Language History: First written Thai in 1283. No change
since then.
Thai
Language Enriched by: Sanskrit, Pali, Khmer, Malayalam,
Chinese, and English.
Unique
Features of Thai: Complicated language, mixture of numerous
sources.
For more
linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography,
linguistic sketch, and history of Thai language
UCLA Language Materials
Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on
Thai
language is included in
the
Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable
phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based
on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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