Language code: tha

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tha

The table below provides technical details for the Thai language, designated by the tha code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

tha

Name

Official

Thai

Native

ไทย

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central Thai (Standard Thai)Northern Thai (Kam Mueang)Northeastern Thai (Isan)Southern Thai (Pak Tai)
Related languages
LaoShanTai LüZhuang
Key facts
Written with its own abugida derived from Old KhmerUses five phonemic tones that change word meaningLacks grammatical gender and plural markers, relying on context and classifiersWord order is typically subject–verb–object, but topic–comment structures are frequentModern vocabulary contains many loans from Sanskrit, Pali, and English
Sample phrase

สวัสดี คุณเป็นอย่างไรบ้าง?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-11, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Thai language, identified by the code tha, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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