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Name:
Thai
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Central Tai; Standard Thai; Thaiklang; Siamese; Central Thai
Spoken in:
USA, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers:
20,200,000 in Thailand (2000). 400,000 Khorat (1984). 4,704,000 mother-tongue Thai are ethnic Chinese, or 80% of the Chinese (1984). Population total all countries: 20,362,390
(Ethnologue)
Code:
tha
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Tai-Kadai (Thai-Kadai)
Parent Subgroup:
Chiang Saeng (chia)
Child Dialect:
Khorat Thai; Korat; Thaikorat (tha-kho)
Map of Thai
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