Thai

Thai translation services

Classification

Tai-Kadai > Tai

Script

Thai

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

20 million

Other names

Official language

Thailand

Interesting Fact

In Thai, the colour "sky blue" (ฟ้า) is considered to be a primary colour, separate from blue.

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Thai is also known as Siamese and is a member of the Tai-Kadai language family. It’s mutually intelligible with Lao, and over half of Thai words are borrowed from Sanskrit, old Khmer (Cambodian) and Pali.

There are several registers in spoken Thai and most Thai speakers can speak in all of the following:

    Royal Thai for addressing the royal family
    Religious Thai when addressing monks
    Rhetorical Thai for public speaking
    Formal Thai for formal communication
    Common or street Thai for informal communication.

The Thai name for the capital Bangkok is the rather long: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthar Ayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

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