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Thailand is home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, [1] with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language being Central Thai.
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 language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] Official language in canton of Grisons (with German and Italian) [58] ... Thai: Thailand ...
The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including Standard Thai or Siamese, the national language of Thailand; Lao or Laotian, the national language of Laos; Myanmar's Shan language; and Zhuang, a major language in the Southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, spoken by the Zhuang people (壯 ...
Sixty-two languages were recognised by the Royal Thai Government. [277] For the purposes of the national census, four dialects of Thai exist; these partly coincide with regional designations, such as Southern Thai and Northern Thai. [275] The largest of Thailand's minority languages is the Lao dialect of Isan spoken in
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Thailand: 73 15 88 1.24 53,357,924 675,417 8,000
Pages in category "Languages of Thailand" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...