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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. 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.

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. 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]

6. 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)

7. Thailand - Wikipedia

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   Thailand [i] was known by outsiders prior to 1939 as Siam. [ii] According to George Cœdès, the word Thai means 'free man' in the Thai language, "differentiating the Thai from the natives encompassed in Thai society as serfs".