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Episode 1: Thai Language History
Thai at a glance
Native name: ภาษาไทย (phasa thai) [pʰāːsǎːtʰāj]
Language family: Kra-Dai, Tai, Southwestern Tai, Chiang Saen, Thai
Number of speakers: c. 60 million
Spoken in: Thailand, USA, Taiwan, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Malaysia and other countries
First written: c. 1292
Writing system: Thai alphabet
Status: Official language in Thailand. Recognized minority language in Cambodia, Malaysia, and Myanmar
Thai Language (ภาษาไทย) History
Thai is the official language of Thailand. and mother tongue of Thai people and other ethnicities in Thailand Thai is a language in the Tai language group. Which is a subgroup of the Tai-Kadai language family. It is assumed that the language in this family originated from southern China. and some linguists suggest that Thai language is probably related to Austro-Asiatic language family Austronesian language family Chinese-Tibetan family
Thai is a language with the same exact tone or tone as Chinese. and pronounced word-for-word It is difficult for foreigners because of the unique tonal pronunciation of each word and complicated spelling In addition to the central language In Thailand it is used other local Thai
Thai origin
The word Thai means freedom, liberty, or in other words, big, great, because to be free, one must have more strength. stronger to prevent invasion from the enemy Although this word is shaped like a borrowed word from Pali-Sanskrit. but actually This word is an authentic Thai word formed by a word formation process known as ‘Draging words into the temple’, which is one way of dragging. according to folklore Thai people are a nation that is regarded as Pali, the language in which the Buddha’s teachings are recorded, is a sacred and auspicious language.
When Thai people want to name the country “Tai”, which is an authentic Thai word, they add a letter at the end. In order to resemble words in Pali-Sanskrit for auspiciousness according to their beliefs, Thai language means the language of the Thai people who are Thai.
Evolution of Thai language
Thai language has evolved into two periods, the real Thai language or the original Thai language. and current Thai or mixed Thai in Thai language first Immigrated to Suvarnabhumi or Laem Thong
The present Thai language, or compound Thai, is the Thai language since the first settlers in Suvarnabhumi.
Characteristics of Thai language
Authentic Thai characteristics
Authentic Thai is the original language of Thailand. Countdown since being domiciled in China Currently up to the language in the term that has not yet been very closely related to other nations Thai language has the following characteristics:
- Most words are monosyllabic words such as parents, hands, arms, elephants, horses, etc.
- Rarely have diphthongs
- The adjective is behind the amplified word, e.g. big house, speaks a lot, is better. The bolded word is an amplified word.
- If you want to create a new word, use a method to combine information words together to create compound words, such as school, river, and father-in-law.
- In writing, use the spelling according to the mother Kok section. Use A to spell Mae Kon. Use N to spell Mae Frog. Use B to spell, such as a bird eats a frog.
- In writing, do not use orthography. Every word can be read aloud with every syllable.
- There is no grammatical principle, i.e., the rules of the language are certain like the languages of some nations, such as Pali, Sanskrit and English, etc., that is, there are no special regulations regarding diction, gender, divisiveness, factors, obstacles, tenses, mala, vacak.
- It is a language with music. Popularly using tones to direct the sound
Characteristics of the current Thai language
It is in Thai since the Thai people migrated down to Laem Thong. which is the location of Thailand today When Thais came to live in this region, they were involved with many nationalities and languages. which has different language regulations from Thai Foreign languages that have come to dominate Thai language nowadays are Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer, Javanese, Mon, Chinese, Burmese, Malay, Persian, and some European languages such as Portuguese and English, etc. When Thai language must be related to such foreign languages. coupled with the ever-changing geographic status and social events. The present Thai language is therefore very distorted. There are more special characteristics of the real Thai language as follows:
- have more polysyllabic words
- have more diphthongs
- New words are created according to the method of assembling. and the junction of Pali and Sanskrit and according to the way of pronouncing the Khmer
- Use the spelling that doesn’t match the section. According to other languages, for example, Mae Kok uses กกก.กกส to spell, Mae Kon uses กกกน to spell, Mae Kok uses กกก กกก ก spelled, more on spelling on กกก.
- There is an increase in karat.
There are also good Thai grammar books, such as Phraya Upakit’s Thai language principle, but it is a traditional grammar system in which the grammatical analysis of each nation has different characteristics. There are many forms of analysis such as structural, tagmemics, functional, transformational, case, lexie-case, and many others.
