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Preferred term

thaThai  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Thai ( Phasa Thai ), or more precisely Central Thai or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Some words in Thai are borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. Thai is mutually intelligible with Lao.

Entry terms

  • Thai language

ISO 639-1 code

  • th

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tha

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tha

ISO 639-3 code

  • tha

Notation

  • tha

In other languages

  • Thaï

    French

  • thaï
  • Thailändisch

    German

  • Thailändische Sprache
  • thai

    Italian

  • Lingua thailandese
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tailandesa
  • tailandés

    Spanish

  • Idioma tailandés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tha

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