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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 uses ng for /ŋ/, as in English. It uses ch for /tɕʰ/ and /tɕ/, somewhat like English. It uses y for /j/, as in English. Final consonants are transcribed according to pronunciation, not Thai orthography. Vowels are transcribed in the position in the word where they are pronounced, not as in Thai orthography.
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:
Northern Thai is spoken in the northern provinces that were formerly part of the independent kingdom of Lan Na, while Isan (a Thai variant of Lao) and Phu Thai are native languages of the northeast. All languages are partially mutually intelligible with Central Thai, with the degree depending on standard sociolinguistic factors.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...