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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.
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: Word. Romanization. English translation.
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 ...
Thai typography concerns the representation of the Thai script in print and on displays, and dates to the earliest printed Thai text in 1819. The printing press was introduced by Western missionaries during the mid-nineteenth century, and the printed word became an increasingly popular medium, spreading modern knowledge and aiding reform as the ...
The Kra–Dai languages (/ ˈkrɑː.daɪ / KRAH-dy, also known as Tai–Kadai / ˈtaɪ.kəˌdaɪ / TIE-kə-DYE and Daic / ˈdaɪ.ɪk / 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 ...
The Thai script (like all Indic scripts) uses a number of modifications to write Sanskrit and related languages (in particular, Pali). Pali is very closely related to Sanskrit and is the liturgical language of Thai Buddhism. In Thailand, Pali is written and studied using a slightly modified Thai script.
1.0.1 (1992) 87 (-5) Unicode documentation. Code chart ∣ Web page. Note: Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. [1][2][3] Thai is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thai, Lanna Tai, and Pali languages. It is based on the Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533.