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How To Say United States In Thai

Languages of Thailand
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Sign at Hua Hin railway station in Thai, English language, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.

Official Central Thai
Vernacular Central Thai, Southern Thai, Isan, Northern Thai
Minority
  • Akha
  • Chong
  • Hakka
  • Hmong
  • Iu Mien
  • Kaloeng
  • Karenics (Ruddy Karen (Eastern Kayah) * Due south'gaw Karen)
  • Kensiu
  • Khmer (Northern * Western)
  • Khmu
  • Kuy
  • Lahu
  • Lisu
  • Mal
  • Malay (Pattani Malay * Satun Malay * Bangkok Malay * Songkhla Malay)
  • Mandarin (Southwestern)
  • Min (Teochew * Hokkien * Hainanese * Hokchew)
  • Mon
  • Nyah Kur
  • Phu Thai
  • Phuan
  • Pwos (Eastern * Northern * Phrae)
  • Shan
  • Tai Lue
  • Thai Song
  • Urak Lawoi'
  • Vietnamese
  • Yoy
  • Bisu
  • Blang
  • Bru
  • Cham
  • Gong
  • Hani
  • Jahai
  • Jingpho
  • Kasong
  • Khün
  • Kintaq
  • Lamet
  • Lao Nyo
  • Lawa
  • Mlabri
  • Mok
  • Moklenic (Moken * Moklen)
  • Mpi
  • Nuosu
  • Palaung
  • Phunoi
  • Prai
  • Saek
  • Samre
  • Sa'och
  • Tai Dam
  • Tai Nuea
  • Tai Ya
  • Tai Yo
  • Ten'edn
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Immigrant
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Strange
  • Arabic
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  • Standard Chinese
  • English
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Signed Ban Khor Sign Linguistic communication, Chiangmai Sign Language, Erstwhile Bangkok Sign Linguistic communication, Thai Sign Language
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Thailand is home to 71 living languages,[1] with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language being Thai. Lao is spoken along the borders with the Lao PDR, Karen languages are spoken along the edge with Myanmar, Central khmer is spoken almost Kingdom of cambodia and Malay is spoken in the south near Malaysia. Sixty-two 'domestic' languages are officially recognized, and international languages spoken in Thailand, primarily past international workers, expatriates and business organisation people, include Burmese, Karen, English language, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, amidst others.[2]

Officially recognized languages [edit]

National breakdown [edit]

The following table comprises all 62 ethnolinguistic groups recognized past the Royal Thai Government in the 2011 Country Written report to the UN Committee responsible for the International Convention for the Emptying of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, available from the Department of Rights and Liberties Promotion of the Thai Ministry of Justice.[iii] : three

5 language families of Thailand recognized by the Royal Thai Authorities[iii]
Kra-Dai Austroasiatic Sino-Tibetan Austronesian Hmong-Mien
24 Groups 22 Groups 11 Groups 3 Groups 2 Groups
Kaleung Kasong Guong (Ugong) Malay (Malayu / Nayu / Yawi) Hmong (Meo)
Northern Thai Kuy / Kuay Karen (seven subfamilies) Moken / Moklen Mien (Yao)
Tai Dam Khmu - South'gaw Karen Urak Lawoi'
Nyaw Thailand Khmer, Northern Khmer - Pwo Karen
Khün Chong - Kaya Karen
Central Thai Sa'och - Bwe Karen
Thai Korat Kensiu - Pa'O
Thai Takbai Samre - Padaung Karen
Thai Loei Thavung - Kayo Karen
Tai Lue So Jingpaw / Kachin
Tai Ya Nyah Kur (Chaobon) Chinese
Shan Nyeu Yunnanese Chinese
Southern Thai Bru (Kha) Bisu
Phu Thai Blang (Samtao) Burmese
Phuan Palaung (Dala-ang) Lahu (Muzur)
Yong Mon Lisu
Yoy Lawa Akha
Lao Khrang Mlabri (Tongluang) Mpi
Lao Ngaew Lamet (Lua)
Lao Ti Lavua (Lawa / Lua)
Lao Wiang/Lao Klang Wa
Lao Lom Vietnamese
Lao Isan
Saek

Regional breakdown [edit]

Regional language information is express. The following table shows all the language families of Northeast Thailand, as recognized in the written report which is the source for the national breakdown.

Language families of Northeast Thailand[3]
Tai Language Family Persons Austroasiatic Language Family Persons
Lao Esan / Thai Lao 13,000,000 Thailand Khmer / Northern Khmer ane,400,000
Primal Thai 800,000 Kuy / Kuay (Suay) 400,000
Thai Khorat / Tai Beung / Tai Deung 600,000 And so seventy,000
Thai-Loei 500,000 Bru combined
Phu Thai 500,000 Vietnamese twenty,000
Ngaw 500,000 Nyeu ten,000
Kaleung 200,000 for Nyah Kur / Chao Bon / Khon Dong 7,000
Yoy Kaleung, Yoy and Phuan So (Thavaung) 1,500
Phuan combined Mon ane,000
Tai-dam (Vocal) (not specified)
Full: xvi,103,000 Total: 1,909,000
Cannot specify ethnicity and amount: 3,288,000
21,300,000

Note that numbers of speakers are for the Northeast region just. Languages may have boosted speakers outside the Northeast.

Provincial breakdown [edit]

Provincial-level language data is express; those interested are directed to the Ethnolinguistic Maps of Thailand resource,[four] or to the Ethnologue Thailand land report.

Central khmer speakers every bit a percentage of the total population in various provinces of Thailand
Province Khmer % in 1990 Khmer % in 2000
Buriram[five] 0.iii% 27.6%
Chanthaburi[6] 0.6% 1.6%
Maha Sarakham[7] 0.2% 0.iii%
Roi Et[8] 0.four% 0.5%
Sa Kaew[9] Northward/A 1.9%
Sisaket[x] xxx.2% 26.ii%
Surin[11] 63.4% 47.2%
Trat[12] 0.iv% 2.1%
Ubon Ratchathani[13] 0.viii% 0.3%

Topolects [edit]

The sole official language of Thailand is Key Thai (Siamese), a native linguistic communication in Central (including the Bangkok Metropolitan Region), Southwestern, and Eastern Thailand, along with Thai Chinese indigenous enclaves in outer parts of the country such as Hatyai, Bandon, Nangrong, and Mueang Khonkaen. Central Thai is a Kra-Dai language closely related to Lao, Shan, and numerous indigenous languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. It is the main language of education and authorities and is spoken throughout the state. The standard is written in the Thai alphabet, an abugida that evolved from the Central khmer script.

There are several Thai topolects. The Fundamental Thai and Southern Thai is successors of Sukhothai language which developed during 17th century. Northern Thai is spoken in the northern provinces that were formerly part of the independent kingdom of Lan Na, while Isan (a Thai variant of Lao) and Phu Thai are native languages of the northeast. All languages are partially mutually intelligible with Primal Thai, with the caste depending on standard sociolinguistic factors. Although all are classified every bit a separate language by most linguists, the Thai government has historically treated them every bit dialects of one "Thai linguistic communication" for political reasons of Thai national identity building.

the Lao-based Isan in the Northeast and Kham muang in the North, is precarious given that they are non well supported in Thailand'southward linguistic communication education policy.[14] The Peranakan in Southern Thailand speak Southern Thai at domicile.

Minority languages [edit]

The position of all minority languages, including the largest, i.e., Yawi in the far s, a dialect of Malay, is the primary community language of the Malay Muslims. Central khmer is spoken by older Northern Khmer. Varieties of Chinese are as well spoken by the older Thai Chinese population, with the Teochew dialect being best represented. Still, the vast majority of Thai Chinese and Northern Khmer speaking Central Thai.

Sign languages [edit]

Several village sign languages are reported among the mount peoples ('hill tribes'), though it is non clear whether these are independent languages, as only Ban Khor Sign Language has been described. Two related deaf-community sign languages adult in Chiangmai and Bangkok; the national Thai Sign Language adult from these under the influence of American Sign Language.

Endangerment status of languages [edit]

The 2014 Ethnologue country written report for Thailand, which uses the EGIDS language endangerment cess calibration,[fifteen] lists one national linguistic communication (Central Thai), ane educational language (Isan), 27 developing languages, 18 vigorous languages, 17 threatened languages, and seven dying languages.[xvi]

Most widely spoken languages [edit]

ICERD 2011 country report information [edit]

The following table shows ethnolinguistic groups in Thailand with equal to or more 400,000 speakers according to the Royal Thai Government'southward 2011 Country Report to the Commission Responsible for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).[three] :99 and the Ethnolinguistic Maps of Thailand projection.[four] Note that the caste to which language speakers will take shifted in their idiolects towards Central Thai will depend on standard sociolinguistic factors, like historic period, instruction, gender, and proximity to an urban center.

Ethnolinguistic groups of Thailand with equal to or more than 400,000 speakers [3] :99

Language Speakers Language Family
Central Thai 20.0 one thousand thousand Tai-Kadai
Isan 15.2 million Tai-Kadai
Kham Muang (Northern Thai) 6.0 million Tai-Kadai
Pak Tai (Southern Thai) 4.five million Tai-Kadai
Northern Khmer one.4 million Austroasiatic
Yawi i.four million Austronesian
Ngaw 0.5 1000000 Tai-Kadai
Phu Thai 0.five million Tai-Kadai
Karen 0.4 million Sino-Tibetan
Kuy 0.4 million Austroasiatic

Ethnologue information [edit]

The figures in the following table are for start language speakers, following Ethnologue.[xvi] Notation that Ethnologue describes 'Isan' as 'Northeastern Thai', following Thai government practice until the 2011 Country Study.

Languages by number of speakers in Thailand with more than 400,000 speakers (with Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale)

Family Language ISO Speakers Status (EGIDS)[a] Notes
Tai-Kadai Central Thai th 20.2 million 1 (National)
Northeastern Thai tts 15.0 million 3 (Wider Advice)
Northern Thai nod 6.0 million 4 (Educational)
Southern Thai sou four.5 million 5 (Developing)
Phu Thai pht 0.5 million 6a (Vigorous)
Austroasiatic Northern Khmer kmx 1.4 million 5 (Developing)
Austronesian Yawi mfa 1.i meg 5 (Developing)
Sino-Tibetan Burmese my 0.8 1000000 Non-ethnic

a ^ Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) of Ethnologue :
0 (International): "The language is widely used between nations in trade, knowledge exchange, and international policy."
i (National): "The language is used in teaching, work, mass media, and authorities at the national level."
2 (Provincial): "The linguistic communication is used in education, work, mass media, and authorities within major administrative subdivisions of a nation."
3 (Wider Communication): "The linguistic communication is used in work and mass media without official status to transcend language differences across a region."
4 (Educational): "The language is in vigorous use, with standardization and literature being sustained through a widespread system of institutionally supported education."
five (Developing): "The linguistic communication is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized class being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable."
6a (Vigorous): "The linguistic communication is used for face-to-face advice past all generations and the situation is sustainable."
6b (Threatened): "The language is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, but it is losing users."
7 (Shifting): "The child-bearing generation tin use the linguistic communication among themselves, but it is not existence transmitted to children."
8a (Moribund): "The but remaining active users of the linguistic communication are members of the grandparent generation and older."
8b (About Extinct): "The only remaining users of the language are members of the grandparent generation or older who accept piffling opportunity to utilize the language."
9 (Dormant): "The linguistic communication serves as a reminder of heritage identity for an ethnic community, but no one has more symbolic proficiency."
ten (Extinct): "The linguistic communication is no longer used and no one retains a sense of ethnic identity associated with the language."

Demography data [edit]

The following table employs 2000 demography data and includes international languages. Caution should be exercised with Thai census data on first language. In Thai censuses, the four largest Tai-Kadai languages of Thailand (in order, Central Thai, Isan (majority Lao),[17] Kam Mueang, Pak Tai) are non provided as options for language or indigenous group. People stating such a language as a first language, including Lao, are allocated to 'Thai'.[eighteen] This explains the disparity between the three tables in this department. For case, self-reporting as Lao has been prohibited, due to the prohibition of the Lao ethnonym in the context of describing Thai citizens, for approximately ane hundred years.[19] [20] The 2011 Country Study data is therefore more comprehensive in that information technology differentiates between the iv largest Tai-Kadai languages of Thailand and between languages described as 'local languages' and 'dialects and others' in the census.

Population of Thailand past linguistic communication [21]
Language Language family No. of speakers (2000)* No. of speakers (2010)
Thai Tai-Kadai 52,325,037 59,866,190
Khmer Austroasiatic 1,291,024 180,533
Malay Austronesian 1,202,911 ane,467,369
Karen Sino-Tibetan 317,968 441,114
Chinese Sino-Tibetan 231,350 111,866
Miao Hmong-Mien 112,686 149,090
Lahu Sino-Tibetan 70,058 -
Burmese Sino-Tibetan 67,061 827,713
Akha Sino-Tibetan 54,241 -
English language Indo-European 48,202 323,779
Tai Tai-Kadai 44,004 787,696
Japanese Japonic 38,565 70,667
Lawa Austroasiatic 31,583 -
Lisu Sino-Tibetan 25,037 -
Vietnamese Austroasiatic 24,476 8,281
Yao Hmong-Mien 21,238 -
Khmu Austroasiatic six,246 -
Indian Indo-European 5,598 22,938
Haw Yunnanese Sino-Tibetan 3,247 -
Htin Austroasiatic 2,317 -
Local languages - 958,251
Dialect and others in Thailand 33,481 318,012
Others 33,481 448,160
Unknown 325,134 -
Total: 56,281,538 65,981,659

* In a higher place the age of five

Language education policy [edit]

Thai is the linguistic communication of instruction. The curriculum introduced past the 1999 National Teaching Deed,[22] which introduced 12 years of free teaching, emphasized Thai equally being the national language. The 2008 Basic Educational activity Core Curriculum [23] prioritises Thai, although information technology as well mentions 'dialects' and 'local languages', i.e., indigenous minority languages. The monolingual education system is generally seen as ineffective, with i-third of teenagers functionally illiterate.[24] Illiteracy in Thai is particularly widespread in Thailand'south three southernmost provinces as the Patani dialect of Malay is the mother tongue for the bulk Malay community. International programs and schools which teach, for case, English or Chinese alongside Thai exist, as do a small number of airplane pilot projects to teach ethnic minority languages alongside Thai in Thai schools.[14]

See also [edit]

  • Demographics of Thailand
  • Indigenous minorities of Thailand
  • Kra-dai languages
  • Nationality, religion, and language data for the provinces of Thailand
  • Southwestern Tai languages
  • Thai language

Farther reading [edit]

  • Bradley, D. 2007. E and Southeast Asia. In C. Moseley (ed.), Encyclopedia of the earth's endangered languages, pp. 349–424. London: Routledge.
  • Bradley, D. 2007. Languages of Mainland S-Eastern asia. In O. Miyaoka, O. Sakiyama, and Yard. E. Krauss (eds.), The vanishing languages of the Pacific Rim, pp. 301–336. Oxford Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Academy Press.
  • Ethnolinguistic Maps of Thailand. 2004. (in Thai). Part of the National Culture Commission, Bangkok.
  • Lebar, F. G., G. C. Hickey, and J. Chiliad. Musgrave. 1964. Ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Homo Relations Expanse Files Printing (HRAF).
  • Luangthongkum, Theraphan. 2007. The Position of Not-Thai Languages in Thailand. In Lee Hock Guan & Fifty. Suryadinata (Eds.), Language, nation and development in Southeast Asia (pp. 181–194). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
  • Matisoff, J. A. 1991. Endangered languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. In R. H. Robins and Due east. Chiliad. Uhlenbeck (eds.), Endangered languages, pp. 189–228. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
  • Matisoff, J. A., S. P. Baron, and J. B. Lowe. 1996. Languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman. Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Monograph Series ane and two. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Smalley, Due west. 1994. Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Linguistic communication Ecology in Thailand. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Using GIS For Displaying An Ethnolinguistic Map of Thailand." In Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, edited past Somsonge Burusphat. Tempe, Arizona, 599–617. Arizona State University, Programme for Southeast Asian Studies.

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External links [edit]

  • Languages of Thailand at Muturzikin.com
  • Languages of Thailand at Ethnologue

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Thailand

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