The document provides an overview of the Thai language, including that it is the national language of Thailand, is tonal and monosyllabic, and originated along the Vietnam-China border. It discusses the Thai alphabet, tones, regional variations, social registers, and numbers. Examples are given to demonstrate writing names in Thai, conversational phrases, foods, and asking for travel directions.

1. Thai Language
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2. Overview
✦ National Language of Thailand
✦ Uninflected, primarily
monosyllabic, tonal language
✦ Tai-Kadai family
✦ Originated on Vietnam and China
border
✦ Eastern Myanmar, Norther
Vietnam, Yunnan, Laos
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3. Written Thai Language
✦ Introduced by the 3rd king of
Sukhothai period
✦ King Ramkhamhaeng
✦ Based on Pali, Sanskrit, and Indian
concepts
✦ Hill Tribes words
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4. Regional Variation
✦ 4 major dialects ‘Central Thai’,
‘Southern’, ‘Northern’, and
Northeastern (close to Lao
language)’
✦ Central Thai or Bangkok Thai-
being taught in school, television
broadcasts, widely understood
✦ English is taught in all public
schools
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5. Four Thai Languages
✦ Used differently in each social
circumstances
✦ Thai royalty, monks, polite
people, crude communication
✦ Example: to eat= Saweuy, Chan,
Tarn, Kin
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6. Alphabet and Tone
✦ First Thai alphabet in 1283
✦ 44 consonants
✦ 15 basic vowel characters
✦ Horizontally placed, left to right
✦ Vowels are written above, below,
before, after
✦
Example: แก กา ก้า กู เก้า
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7. Tonal Language
✦ Thai alphabet is phonemic
✦ Possible to pronounce a word without knowing
its meaning
✦ Tonal language
✦ Each word has a certain pitch characteristic
✦ Five tones: mid, low, high, rising, falling
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8. Practice your Tone
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9. Practice your Tone
✦ Mid Low High Rising Falling
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10. Practice your Tone
✦ Mid Low High Rising Falling
✦ Ma
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11. Practice your Tone
✦ Mid Low High Rising Falling
✦ Ma
✦ Come - - Horse Dog
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12. Practice your Tone
✦ Mid Low High Rising Falling
✦ Ma
✦ Come - - Horse Dog
✦ Na
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13. Practice your Tone
✦ Mid Low High Rising Falling
✦ Ma
✦ Come - - Horse Dog
✦ Na
✦ Rice Field - Face/ Page Aunt Thick
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14. Thai Consonants
•Practice Thai Consonants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UwWY3aLG2D8&feature=related
•Thai ABC
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wuGfLRSAZXU&feature=related
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15. Vowels
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16. Let’s write your names
✦ Janel Anderson
✦
Consonants: จ น ล อ น ด ร ส น
✦
Vowels: า เ แ เ อ ์ ั
✦
จาเนล แอนเดอร์สัน
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17. Thai Names
✦
ซอว์เยอร์ กอเธล ✦
บริททานี พีเทอร์ซัน
✦
บาร์บารา คุก ✦
เอริค ไรเดเซล
✦
ไทเลอร์ ฮิกกินส์ ✦
แซรา ชิมแชค
✦
คริสทีนา คาร์ลซ ✦
บรีอานา สมิธ
✦
แทรา แลง ✦
แดเนียล สแทนดิฟอร์ด
✦
แมคคัลลี แมคโดนัลด์ ✦
ซาแวนนา ซันดท์
✦
ไบรอาร์ เอเลอร์ ✦
รีเบคคา เทาท์
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18. Thai Numbers
1 = ๑ = Nueng 6 = ๖ = Hok
2 = ๒ = Song 7 = ๗ = Jet
3 = ๓ = Sarm 8 = ๘ = Pbad
4 = ๔ = Sii 9 = ๙ = Gao
5 = ๕ = Ha 10 = ๑๐ = Sib
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19. Writing Thai Numbers
✦ In your study guide
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20. Exercise: Thai Number
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21. Exercise: Thai Number
✦
Mr. Chaht has ๓ daughters and Wipa has ๒ sons.
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22. Exercise: Thai Number
✦
Mr. Chaht has ๓ daughters and Wipa has ๒ sons.
✦
There are ๒๓ staff working in the English Program; ๑๒ Thais
and ๑๑ foreigners.
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23. Exercise: Thai Number
✦
Mr. Chaht has ๓ daughters and Wipa has ๒ sons.
✦
There are ๒๓ staff working in the English Program; ๑๒ Thais
and ๑๑ foreigners.
✦
Sa-nugan Ying School address is ๑๓๔ Prachatippatai Road,
Suphanburi, Thailand, ๗๒๐๐๐
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24. Exercise: Thai Number
✦
Mr. Chaht has ๓ daughters and Wipa has ๒ sons.
✦
There are ๒๓ staff working in the English Program; ๑๒ Thais
and ๑๑ foreigners.
✦
Sa-nugan Ying School address is ๑๓๔ Prachatippatai Road,
Suphanburi, Thailand, ๗๒๐๐๐
✦
Mr. Chaht’s phone number is +๖๖๘๑- ๘๕๘๗๖๗๘
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25. Exercise: Thai Number
✦
Mr. Chaht has ๓ daughters and Wipa has ๒ sons.
✦
There are ๒๓ staff working in the English Program; ๑๒ Thais
and ๑๑ foreigners.
✦
Sa-nugan Ying School address is ๑๓๔ Prachatippatai Road,
Suphanburi, Thailand, ๗๒๐๐๐
✦
Mr. Chaht’s phone number is +๖๖๘๑- ๘๕๘๗๖๗๘
✦
Kru Tuke’s phone number is +๖๖๘๙-๘๓๖๔๔๐๓
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26. Self Introduction
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27. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
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28. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
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29. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
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30. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
✦
ดิฉัน/ ผม ชื่อ.............................................. ค่ะ/ครับ
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31. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
✦
ดิฉัน/ ผม ชื่อ.............................................. ค่ะ/ครับ
✦ Ar Yu ............... pbee
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32. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
✦
ดิฉัน/ ผม ชื่อ.............................................. ค่ะ/ครับ
✦ Ar Yu ............... pbee
✦
อายุ ................... ปี
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33. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
✦
ดิฉัน/ ผม ชื่อ.............................................. ค่ะ/ครับ
✦ Ar Yu ............... pbee
✦
อายุ ................... ปี
✦ Rien Grade ......... Tii Rong Rien Lodi High School Ka/ Krub
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34. Self Introduction
✦ Sa wad dee Ka/ Krub
✦
สวัสดี ค่ะ/ ครับ
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chue.............................. Ka/ Krub
✦
ดิฉัน/ ผม ชื่อ.............................................. ค่ะ/ครับ
✦ Ar Yu ............... pbee
✦
อายุ ................... ปี
✦ Rien Grade ......... Tii Rong Rien Lodi High School Ka/ Krub
✦
เรียนเกรด ........ ที่โรงเรียนโลดาย ไฮสคูล ค่ะ/ ครับ
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35. Self Introduction
✦ Wanni Di Chan/ Phom Kor Nam Sa-nuer Ngan Kon Kwa
✦
วันนี้ ดิฉัน/ ผม ขอนําเสนองานค้นคว้า
✦ Rueng Garn Dern Tang Tong Tiew Nai Pbra Thet
✦
เรื่องการเดินทางท่องเที่ยวในประเทศ
✦ Asia Ta Wan Ork Chiang Tai Ka/ Krub
✦
เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ ค่ะ/ครับ
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36. Useful Thai: Greeting
✦ Good Morning
✦ Sa Wad Di Torn Chao Ka/ Krub
✦ Good Afternoon
✦ Sa Wad Di Torn Bai Ka/ Krub
✦ Good Bye
✦ La Gorn Ka/ Krub
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37. Everyday Conversation
✦ Have you eaten yet?
✦ How are you?
✦ Tarn Khao Rue Young Ka/ Krub?
✦ Sa Bai Di Mai Ka/ Krub?
✦ Yes, I have.
✦ I’m fine/ good.
✦ Tarn Laew Ka/ Krub
✦ Sa Bai Di Ka/ Krub
✦ No, I haven’t
✦ Young Mai Dai Tarn Ka/ Krub
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38. Everyday Conversation
✦ Where did you just go?
✦ I’m sorry.
✦ Pbai Nai Ma?
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Kor Tode Ka/ Krub
✦ Where are you going?
✦ That’s alright./ Never mind
✦ Gum Lung Ja Pai Ti Nai?
✦ Mai Pben Rai Ka/ Krub
✦ Yes = Chai Ka/ Krub
✦ No = Mai Ka/ Krub
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39. Let’s speak Thai
A: Sa Wad Di Ka/ Krub
B: Sa Wad Di Ka/ Krub
A: Sa Bai Di Mai Ka/ Krub?
B: Sa Bai Di Ka
A: Khun Tarn Khao Rue Young Ka/ Krub?
B: Tarn Laew Ka/ Krub
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40. Food
✦ Banana = Gluoy
✦ Pork = Moo
✦ Orange = Som
✦ Chicken = Gai
✦ Apple = Apple
✦ Beef = Nuer
✦ Papaya = Ma La Gor
✦ Fish = Pbla
✦ Pineapple = Sab Pba Rod
✦ Prawn = Goong
✦ Coconut = Ma Praw
✦ Duck = Pbed
✦ Pumpkin = Fuck Thong
✦ Tofu = Tao Hu
✦ Chili = Prik
✦ Vegetable = Phak
✦ Supaporn
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41. Food
✦ Thai Omelet = Kai Jiew
✦ Fried Rice = Kao Pad
✦ Papaya Spicy Salad = Som Tum
✦ Spicy Seafood Soup = Tom Yum Ta-le
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42. Food Conversation
✦ I don’t eat spicy food.
✦ Di Chan Mai Gin Phet
✦ I like omelet.
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Chorb Gin
Kai Jiew
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43. Traveling
✦ How can I get to....?
✦ Di Chan/ Phom Ja Pbai ...........Yang
Rai?
✦ Go Straight = Trong Pbai
✦ Turn Left = Liew Sai
✦ Turn Right = Liew Kwa
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44. References
✦ http://jazripper.blogspot.com/2010/05/thai-keyboard-layout.html
✦ http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9638399/overview.htm
✦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMjbUA2Vkk
✦ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taikadai-en.svg
✦ http://iluvthailand.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/history-of-the-thai-language-
and-thai-alphabet/
✦ http://www.cnx-translation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=95
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