Thai Language

Kra-Dai language with about 27 million native speakers; Thailand's sole official language, tonal and written in Thai script.

Specifications & Metrics

family

Kra–Dai

Core Principles & Analysis

• Thai has about 27 million first-language speakers, and over 70 million people in Thailand speak it as of 2024.
• It has five phonemic tones: mid, low, falling, high and rising.
• It is the sole official language of Thailand, and its writing system has an eight-century history.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Thai language