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2. Languages of Thailand - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Kra–Dai languages - Wikipedia

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   ɪ k / DYE-ik), are a language family in mainland Southeast Asia, southern China, and northeastern India. All languages in the family are tonal, including Thai and Lao, the national languages of Thailand and Laos, respectively. [1] Around 93 million people speak Kra–Dai languages; 60% of those speak Thai. [2]

4. Tai languages - Wikipedia

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   The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including Standard Thai or Siamese, the national language of Thailand; Lao or Laotian, the national language of Laos; Myanmar's Shan language; and Zhuang, a major language in the Southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, spoken by the Zhuang people (壯 ...

5. Southwestern Tai languages - Wikipedia

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   The reconstructed language is called Proto-Thai; cf. Proto-Tai, which is the ancestor of all of the Tai languages. The following tree follows that of Ethnologue [10] Southern Thai (Pak Thai) (Thailand) Chiang Saen dialects (10) Tai Dam (Black Tai; Vietnam, Thailand, Laos) Northern Thai (Lanna, Tai Yuan; Thailand, Laos, Burma)

6. Thai language - Wikipedia

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   A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok. Thai, [a] or Central Thai [b] (historically Siamese; [c] [d] Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai, Mon, Lao Wiang, Phuan people in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country.

7. List of loanwords in Thai - Wikipedia

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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:

8. Category:Thai language - Wikipedia

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9. Southern Thailand - Wikipedia

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   The largest native language is Southern Thai (Thai: ภาษาไทยใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tʰajtâːj]), also known as Pak Thai or Dambro (Thai: ภาษาตามโพร [pʰaːsǎː taːmpʰroː]), which is a southwestern Tai language spoken in the 14 changwat of southern Thailand as well as by small Thai communities in the ...