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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)
As of 31 December 2018 there were 878 districts in Thailand. [1] This table lists those districts, and the provinces ( changwat ) of Thailand and regions ( phak ) of Thailand in which they lie. This sortable table does not include districts in Bangkok.
In Thai censuses, the four largest Tai-Kadai languages of Thailand (in order, Central Thai, Isan (majority Lao), [17] Kam Mueang, Pak Tai) are not provided as options for language or ethnic group. People stating such a language as a first language, including Lao, are allocated to 'Thai'. [ 18 ]
Southern Thai (ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tʰaj tʰìn tâːj]), also known as Dambro (ภาษาตามโพร [pʰaːsǎː taːm pʰroː]), Pak Tai (ภาษาปักษ์ใต้ [pʰaːsǎː pàk tâːj]), or "Southern language" (ภาษาใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tâːj]), [citation needed] is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity [2] and ...
Northern Thai shares much vocabulary with Standard Thai, especially scientific terms, which draw many prefixes and suffixes from Sanskrit and Pali, and it also has its own distinctive words. Just like Thai and Lao, Northern Thai has borrowed many loanwords from Khmer, Sanskrit, and Pali.
As the Lao language of Isan is written in Thai according to Thai spelling rules, the phonemic distinction between /j/ into /ɲ/ cannot be made in the orthography, thus Isan speakers write ya ' ยา ', which suggests ya (ยา, /jāː/), 'medicine' but is also used for [n]ya (ยา, ຍາ, /ɲáː/), an honorary prefix used to address a ...
The Thai Meteorological Department divides the country into six regions for meteorological purposes. [2] It differs from the four-region system in that the east is regarded as a separate region, the south is divided into east and west coasts, and Nakhon Sawan and Uthai Thani are grouped in the central region.
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 ...