? -Hello.

-Nice to meet you.

-See you later

-Good afternoon

-Bye.

Modern Thai has 42 consonants and 32 vowels and symbols. Vowel letters can appear before and after consonants, and can also appear above and below consonants. There are four tone symbols, which are marked on the upper right of consonants, and the first tone is unmarked. Thai is written from left to right, generally without punctuation marks.

Extended data:

In Thai, 75% of daily life words are Dai-Thai original words, and 15% are English loanwords, especially modern scientific and technological words appearing in the new period, almost all of which are copied from English, and the remaining 15% are mainly foreign language loanwords such as Mongolian (Khmer) and Burmese.

Advanced words such as literature and law in Thai account for about 30% of the original compound words in Thai, Sanskrit and Pali (ancient Indian) account for more than 50%, and western languages such as modern English account for about 20%.

Thai vocabulary comes from ancient Indian words Sanskrit and Pali, and most of them are political, philosophical, religious, artistic, psychological and abstract terms. With the spread of Brahmanism and Buddhism, most of them are completely copied, but for the convenience of pronunciation, the last 1 and 2 syllables are often simplified, but Sanskrit and Pali remain in the text. So writing Thai is many times more difficult than speaking Thai.

For example, in Thai, the sound "s" has three letters, because in Sanskrit there are three S. In Sanskrit, three s represent different pronunciation parts, and Sanskrit uses three different letters to represent these three s, but the Thai pronunciation of the three s is exactly the same, while the font keeps the original appearance of Sanskrit-also represented by three different letters. So in Thai Pinyin, there are three possible letters that pronounce S, and this S is just a headache in Thai spelling.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Thai