Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Idioms in the Thai language are usually derived from various natural or cultural references. Many include rhyming and/or alliteration, and their distinction from aphorisms and proverbs are not always clear. This is a list of such idioms.
The Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) is the official [1] [2] system for rendering Thai words in the Latin alphabet. It was published by the Royal Institute of Thailand in early 1917, when Thailand was called Siam .
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:
The methodology of the Dictionary Revision Commission (DRC) of the RIT has remained virtually unchanged for more than 70 years. The RID is produced by the DRC which is a relatively small group of experienced Thai scholars, convening at least once per week and working through the previous edition of the dictionary alphabetically, reviewing it entry by entry and sense by sense, suggesting new ...
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Thai on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Thai in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
So Sethaputra (Thai: สอ เสถบุตร, pronounced [sɔ̌ː sèːt.tʰa.bùt], RTGS: So Setthabut; 10 February 1904 – 8 September 1970) was a Thai writer, journalist, and politician, best known as the compiler of the New Model English–Thai Dictionary, one of the most popular English–Thai dictionaries of the 20th century.
However, the two systems have a significant discrepancy: Thai vowels are distinguished by shortness and length, while for English, it is laxness and tenseness. That explains why Thai English speakers perceive and produce lax sounds as short sounds and tense sounds as long sounds, which gives their pronunciation its uniqueness (Kruatrachue, 1960).