Thai leid

Thai
Siamese
ภาษาไทย, Phasa Thai
Pronunciation	[pʰāːsǎːtʰāj]
Region	Thailand Malaysia Cambodia (Koh Kong) Myanmar (Tanintharyi)
Ethnicity	Central Thai, Thai Chinese, Malaysian Siamese
Native speakers	20–36 million (2000)[1] 44 million L2 speakers with Lanna, Isan, Southern Thai, Northern Khmer[1]
Leid faimily	Tai–Kadai Tai Southwestern Tai Chiang Saen Thai
Writin seestem	Thai script Thai Braille Khom Thai (religious use)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Thailand  ASEAN[2]
Recognised minority leid in	Cambodia (Koh Kong)  Malaysia (Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Hulu Perak district)  Myanmar (Tanintharyi)
Regulatit bi	Royal Society of Thailand
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	th
ISO 639-2	tha
ISO 639-3	tha
Glottolog	thai1261[3]
Linguasphere	47-AAA-b

Thai (ภาษาไทย Phasa Thai^[4] [pʰāːsǎːtʰāj] ( listen)) is the naitional an offeecial leid o Thailand an the native leid o the Thai fowk, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member o the Tai group o the Tai-Kadai leid faimily. Historical linguists hinnae can definitively link the Tai-Kadai leids tae ony ither leid faimily. Some wirds in Thai is borraed frae Pali, Sanskrit an Auld Khmer. It is a tonal an analytic leid. Thai haes a complex orthography an relational markers an aa. Thai is mutually intelligible wi Lao^[5].

1. ↑ ^{a b} Thai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ "Languages of ASEAN". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Thai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. ↑ Royal Thai General Seestem o Transcription: phasa thai; ISO 11940 transliteration: p̣hās̄ʹāthịy
5. ↑ Ausbau and Abstand languages (in Inglis)