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Idioms in the Thai language are usually derived from various natural or cultural references. Many include rhyming and/or alliteration, and their distinction from aphorisms and proverbs are not always clear. This is a list of such idioms.
Category: Thai words and phrases. ... See as example Category:English words. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. T.
Thai is the language of education. The curriculum introduced by the 1999 National Education Act, [21] which introduced 12 years of free education, emphasized Thai as being the national language. The 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum [22] prioritises Thai, although it also mentions 'dialects' and 'local languages', i.e., ethnic minority ...
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:
Thai honorifics date back to the Sukhothai Kingdom, a period which lasted from 1238 to 1420 CE. [2] During the Sukhothai period, honorifics appeared in the form of kinship terms . [ 3 ] The Sukhothai period also saw the introduction of many Khmer and Pali loanwords to Thai.
Chaiyo (ไชโย, pronounced [tɕʰāj.jōː]) is a Thai-language exclamation used to express joy or approval, comparable to 'hurrah/hooray' in English. It is largely synonymous with chayo (ชโย, [tɕʰa.jōː]), which is more often used in poetry.