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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.
Public school (a publicly funded and administered school) is known as sekolah negeri in Indonesian and sekolah kebangsaan in Malaysia. Meanwhile, sekolah tinggi is translation of high school in Malaysia (similar to English usage), while it refers to university college in Indonesia (similar to Flanders Dutch hogeschool).
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:
There are 37,175 schools in Thailand providing general education as of the 2011 academic year. These include 31,286 schools under the OBEC, 1,726 operated by local governments, 57 university demonstration schools, 414 Phrapariyatidhamma (Buddhist) schools and 3,679 private schools.
Malay is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods.New words can be created by attaching affixes onto a root word (), formation of a compound word (composition), or repetition of words or portions of words (reduplication).
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 ...
The sole official language of Thailand is Central Thai (Siamese), a vernacular language in Central (including the Bangkok Metropolitan Region), Southwestern, and Eastern Thailand, along with Thai Chinese ethnic enclaves in outer parts of the country such as Hatyai, Bandon, Nangrong, and Mueang Khonkaen.
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 ...