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kat hang tua eng: bite one's own tail: speaking incoherently [1] กาคาบพริก: ka khap prik: crow holding a chilli pepper in its mouth: a dark-skinned person wearing bright red clothes [1] กาหลงรัง: ka long rang: lost crow in another's nest: one who refuses to return home; a tramp [1] กำขี้ดี ...
There are some Thai words which are transcribed into equivalent characters of Thai language e.g. format ฟอร์แมท (f-ฟ o-อ r-ร m-ม a-แ t-ต), lesbian เลสเบียน (l-ล e-เ s-ส b-บ ia-เอีย n-น) etc. These words are transcribed with rules made by the Royal Institute.
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.
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 ]
Thai honorifics date back to the Sukhothai Kingdom, a period which lasted from 1238 to 1420 CE. [2] During the Sukhothai period, honorifics appeared in the form of kinship terms . [ 3 ] The Sukhothai period also saw the introduction of many Khmer and Pali loanwords to Thai.
Kedah Malay or Kedahan (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kedah; also known as Pelat Utara or Loghat Utara 'Northern Dialect') or as it is known in Thailand, Syburi Malay (Thai: ภาษามลายูไทรบุรี Phasa Malāyū Saiburī) is a Malayic language mainly spoken in the northwestern Malaysian states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and ...
Kelantan–Pattani Malay (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kelantan–Patani; Thai: ภาษายาวี; baso/kecek Taning in Pattani; baso/kecek Klate in Kelantan) is an Austronesian language of the Malayic subfamily spoken in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, as well as in Besut and Setiu districts of Terengganu state and the Perhentian Islands, and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.
The name "Kra–Dai" was proposed by Weera Ostapirat (2000), as Kra and Dai are the reconstructed autonyms of the Kra and Tai branches, respectively. [4] " Kra–Dai" has since been used by the majority of specialists working on Southeast Asian linguistics, including Norquest (2007), [5] Pittayaporn (2009), [6] [7] Baxter & Sagart (2014), [8] and Enfield & Comrie (2015).