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Last names became legally required of Thai citizens in 1913 with the passing of the Surname Act 1913. [2] [1] Until then, most Thais used only a first or given name.. According to the current law, Person Name Act, BE 2505 (1962), to create a new Thai surname, it must be no longer than ten Thai letters, excluding vowel symbols and diac
Xianluo (Chinese: 暹羅) was the Chinese name for the Ayutthaya Kingdom, merged from Suphannaphum city-state, centered in modern-day Suphan Buri; and Lavo city-state, centered in modern-day Lop Buri. To the Thai, the name of their country has mostly been Mueang Thai. [1] The country's designation as Siam by Westerners likely came from the ...
Somchai (Thai: สมชาย, pronounced [sǒm.tɕʰāːj]) is a Thai given name used by males. It is the most common male given name in Thailand, with 240,000 persons using the name in 2012. [1] Persons with the given name Somchai include: Somchai Chantarasamrit, cyclist; Somchai Chanthavanij, sports shooter; Somchai Chimlum, boxer
Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon [4] and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai has a complex orthography and system of relational markers.
Lao names (Lao: ຊື່ ), like Thai ones, are given in Western order, where the family name goes after the first given name. On official documents, both first given name and surname are written, but it is customary to refer to people in formal situations by their first name, plus titles and honorifics, alone.
Thais often refer to their country using the polite form prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย). They also use the more colloquial term mueang Thai (Thai: เมืองไทย) or simply Thai; the word mueang, archaically referring to a city-state, is commonly used to refer to a city or town as the centre of a region.
In Thai, a person's full name consists of a given name followed by a surname or family name. [7] In addition, most individuals have a nickname. As pronominals, given names are used most frequently in second person form. Given names are often preceded by the courtesy title khun when addressing friends or acquaintances. Given names are sometimes ...
King Rama VI also imposed the idea of "Thai-ness" (khwam-pen-thai) on his subjects and strictly defined what was "Thai" and "un-Thai". Authors of this period re-wrote Thai history from an ethno-nationalist viewpoint, [49] disregarding the fact that the concept of ethnicity had not played an important role in Southeast Asia until the 19th century.