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Thai language

Thai: Official language of Thailand.

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.

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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