Thai leid
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Thai (ภาษาไทย Phasa Thai[1] [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 family. Historical linguists hae been unable tae definitively link the Tai-Kadai leids tae ony ither leid family. Some wirds in Thai are borrowed frae Pali, Sanskrit an Auld Khmer. It is a tonal an analytic leid. Thai an aa haes a complex orthography an relational markers. Thai is mutually intelligible wi Lao[2].
References [edit]
- ↑ Royal Thai General System of Transcription: phasa thai; ISO 11940 transliteration: p̣hās̄ʹāthịy
- ↑ Ausbau and Abstand languages
