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The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows:
Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Melayu are used interchangeably in reference to Malay in Malaysia. Malay was designated as a national language by the Singaporean government after independence from Britain in the 1960s to avoid friction with Singapore's Malay-speaking neighbours of Malaysia and Indonesia. [22] It has a symbolic, rather than ...
Kedah Malay or Kedahan (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kedah; also known as Pelat Utara or Loghat Utara 'Northern Dialect') or as it is known in Thailand, Syburi Malay (Thai: ภาษามลายูไทรบุรี Phasa Malāyū Saiburī) is a Malayic language mainly spoken in the northwestern Malaysian states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and ...
A sign written in Northern Thai, Thai, and English. Some problems arise when the Thai script is used to write Northern Thai. In particular, Standard Thai script cannot transcribe all Northern Thai tones. The two falling tones in Northern Thai correspond to a single falling tone in Thai.
Kelantan–Pattani Malay (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kelantan–Patani; Thai: ภาษายาวี; baso/kecek Taning in Pattani; baso/kecek Klate in Kelantan) is an Austronesian language of the Malayic subfamily spoken in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, as well as in Besut and Setiu districts of Terengganu state and the Perhentian Islands, and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.
kam khi di kwa kam tot: Better to grab faeces than flatulence. Receiving anything is better than nothing at all. [1] กำแพงมีหูประตูมีตา: kamphaeng mi hu pratu mi ta: Walls have ears, doors have eyes. One should always mind their conduct; secrets can be revealed. [1]
It was published by the Royal Institute of Thailand in early 1917, when Thailand was called Siam. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is used in road signs [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and government publications and is the closest method to a standard of transcription for Thai, but its use, even by the government, is inconsistent.
The high diversity of Kra–Dai languages in southern China, especially in Guizhou and Hainan, points to that being an origin of the Kra–Dai language family, founding the nations that later became Thailand and Laos in what had been Austroasiatic territory. Genetic and linguistic analyses show great homogeneity among Kra–Dai-speaking people ...