Languages of Thailand Languages of Thailand Hmong (Hmong: Hmoob) is a Hmong-Mien language spoken by the Hmong people native to Sichuan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. Some 160,000 Hmong speakers now live in the United States as well, mostly in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ** . It consists of a large number of mutually unintelligible dialects, often considered languages. The dialect discussed here is known as White Hmong or Hmong Daw. There are other dialects, including Blue Hmong (Hmong Njua) and Black Hmong. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hmong language"
Isan (also Isaan or Esarn) is the language of the Isan region of Thailand. It is a tonal language of the Tai family, and is closely related to Lao, but has also been much influenced by Thai: the three are substantially mutually comprehensible. Phonology and the rules for determining tones vary in each dialect, but are generally similar to Lao. The Khorat dialect blends features of Isan and Thai. The vocabulary is largely the same as in Lao, except for the use of Thai loan words and neologisms. It was previously written using the Lao script, with Tua Tham used for religious inscriptions. Since the introduction of Thai language schooling in the 1920s it has been written in the Thai script. ...more on Wikipedia about "Isan language"
Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) is one of the main Austroasiatic languages. Sanskrit and Pali have had considerable influence on the language, through the vehicles of Buddhism and Hinduism. As result of their geographic proximity, the Khmer language has influenced Thai and Laotian and vice versa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khmer language"
Mlabri is a language and an ethnic group of people in Thailand and Laos, and known as Phi Tong Luang among Thais. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mlabri"
The Northern Thai language or Kam Mueang (คำเมือง) is the language of the people of Lannathai, Thailand. It is a Tai language, related to Thai and Lao. Northern Thai has approximately six million speakers, most of whom live in Thailand, with a few thousand in Laos. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northern Thai language"
The Shan language is related to the Thai language and is commonly called Tai Shan. It is spoken in Northeast Myanmar and in pockets in Thailand. It has 5 tones and is a part of the Thai languages group, which span from Northern Myanmar on the west through Southern China on the north, and Laos on the east. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shan language"
Southern Thai (or Pak Dtai) is spoken by about 5 million people, mainly in Southern Thailand. It's part of the Tai family of languages. Mostly found in the 14 southern provinces, from Chumpon to Narathiwat, the language contains many words of Malay origin, in part because many of the speakers are Malay, or Pattani Malay, and because of its proximity to Malay-speaking regions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Southern Thai language"
The Teochew dialect, also called Teochiu, Tiuchiu, Chaozhou or Diojiu, is a dialect of the Chinese spoken variant of Minnan, spoken in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teochew (dialect)"
The Thai language (ภาษาไทย, phasa thai, meaning "the language of Thais"), is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family. The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have originated in what is now southern China, and some linguists have proposed links to the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, or Sino-Tibetan language families. It is a tonal and analytic language. The combination of tonality, a complex orthography, relational markers and a distinctive phonology can make Thai difficult to learn for those who do not already speak a related language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thai language"
Yawi is a misstranscript of the word ยาวี. Actually the word should be transcripted to Jawi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yawi"
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