Thai
Tai language
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Summary
Thai is a natural language[1]. Thai ranks in the top 4% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,043 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Influenced by: Khmer[3], Sanskrit[4], Pali[5], Teochew[6]
- Country: Thailand[7], Cambodia[8], Malaysia[9], Myanmar[10]
- Instance of: modern language[11], language[12], standard language[13], literary language[14], human language[15]
- Named after: Thai people[16]
- Subclass of: Southwestern Tai[17]
- Writing system: Thai script[18], romanization of Thai[19]
- Commons category: Thai language[20]
- Wikimedia language code: th[21]
- Has part(s): Krung Thep dialect[22], Khorat Thai[23]
- Topic's main category: Category:Thai language[24]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1651[25]
- Language regulatory body: Royal Society of Thailand[26]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 20,700,000[27], 20,490,000[28], 40,000,000[29]
- Native label: ภาษาไทย[30]
- Short name: тайский[31], тайаг[32]
- Different from: Tai[33]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[34]
- Indigenous to: Thailand[35]
- Female form of label: la langue thaïlandaise[36]
- Studied by: Thai studies[37]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/THA[38]
- Has tense: present tense[39], future tense[40]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[41]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[42], isolating language[43], tonal language[44]
Why It Matters
Thai has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Thai is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]