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At hot July night prince Siddhartha Gautama left a patrimonial palace for a long time to leave Kapilavastu, whether and in it it is a high time in ten thousand from Kapilavastu, in southern limits Celestial because of a ridge of foggy mountains the tribes speaking in the, special language have seemed. Later, many hundreds years later, these tribes will occupy territory of modern Thailand, and an adverb on which people from these tribes spoke, become a basis for Thai language. So the legend, anyway, says.

Whence actually there was a Thai language and it belongs to which language family, precisely anybody till now does not know. Linguists, as a rule, pay attention to a significant amount of Chinese loans used in Thai language. Partially for this reason Thai language or «phasa thaj» sometimes carry to the Chinese-Tibetan language group.

Like Chinese, Thai language is tonovym; tone carries out in it smyslorazlichitelnuju function. In official Thai language five tones are used, but in some regional dialects the quantity of tones can reach seven. The majority of words consist of one syllable; words are not declined and do not change on sorts or cases. The same word depending on the place in the offer can act in a role of a noun, an adjective, a verb or an adverb.

The Thai alphabet created in 1283 by King Ramkamhengom on the basis of khmer and Indian analogues, superficially resembles both the khmer letter, and Sanskrit devanagari. The alphabet consists of 44 letters designating consonants; the signs displaying on the letter vowel sounds and diphthongs, are not included into system of the Thai alphabet and form podsistemnuju group.

From 44 consonants available in the alphabet 16 are excessive. It means, that for graphic display of the same consonant in the alphabet there are some different independent symbols. For example, to display on the letter one consonant "kh", at tajtsev in the alphabet there are five different letters: kho khaj (egg), kho khuat (bottle), kho khvaj (buffalo), kho khon (person) and kho-rakhang (bell). These "superfluous" 16 letters are used basically at a writing of the words borrowed from languages buddistskogo of a canon: a Sanskrit or have fallen. To read completely »

Somehow one n tourist has told, that has arrived to Istrian peninsula for visiting of visa-free excursion to Venice in summary has opened for itself the most comfortable place on the Earth, having convinced of justice of opinion, that the week spent in Croatia, gives a stock of vital energy for the whole year … Today we will tell to you about history of this surprising place.

The first settlements on this beautiful and generous earth have arisen seven millenia ago, during a neolith epoch. From them there were one crocks, anything remarkable. (The earliest settlement of primitive people is revealed in cave Sandal near to Pools).

The interesting has begun, when coast of Istria had ancient Greeks, precisely under nice Odysseus leadership. And can be, also Argonauts there looked. As the legend says, they have based "City-refuge" polai which has become subsequently Puloj. Greeks have added to archaeological museums still a little bit crocks and Apollo's broken statue.

Greeks were followed by Romans who bystrenko have grasped all coast and named turned out provinces Top and Bottom Illirik as local residents have been named illirijtsami. However, they named themselves "histri", paternal there was a name Istria. The main settlement histri was near to polai, that is in suburb Pools. It was called nezaksium.

Romans have taken care of the future industry of tourism: they have left remarkable architectural monuments. The most impress are all in the same Bullet which at Romans was capital of Istria. The huge amphitheatre constructed two millenia ago, contained 23 thousand spectators. Its sizes impress till now: it is an ellipse in length 133 and in the width 105 m. On the magnificent arena, one of the greatest in Europe, pass festivals and performances in the summer. To read completely »

Has tried to recollect one of these days names of our films love, and the first, that has for some reason come to mind, there was «a Twist of fate, or With easy steam». The Protagonist of a film Evgenie Lukashin, being in a condition of strong alcoholic intoxication, gets to another's city and neumyshlenno gets into apartment of the citizen of Hope SHevelevoj. Being unable realise the act and its harmful results, citizen Lukashin refuses to recognise socially-dangerous character of perfect act then relations between Hope SHevelevoj and its potential spouse citizen Ippolitom become object of offence Lukashina. Anything to itself of the romanticist!

However, later friends have prompted to me, that we have also other films about love: «Love and pigeons» or «Three poplars on Plyuschikha», for example. I remember these films badly, but well I remember a film «Love young Nak», removed ten years ago Thai director Nonzi Nimibutrom. To tell the truth, for the life I saw a large quantity of films about love. Hundreds. Thousand. But till now for some reason it seems to me, that the cinema about love should be removed just how has made it ten years ago Khun Nonzi.

Born in 1962 in Thai province Nonthaburi, Nonzi Nimibutr after the termination of Bangkok university Silapakorn any time removed preview trailers and videoclips. Having achieved certain success in a media advertising field, in the late nineties Nonzi decides to test the forces in the present cinema. It was time when in Thailand there was a so-called cinema of "a new wave» thanks to which the Thai cinema became known far outside of South East Asia. To read completely »

«Montenegrins? What is?
— Bonaparte has questioned:
— The truth l: this tribe malicious
Is not afraid of our forces? »…
… And Frenchmen hate
Since then our free edge
Also redden, if will catch sight
Our cap accidentally.

A.Pushkin. «Bonaparte and Montenegrins».

— Montenegro, Montenegro! Where it? Near to Paramaribo?. No, Montenegro is not the South America.
These are the Balkans. Only the majority knows this country, as Montenegro. «Monte negro» — in Italian, «black mountain».

The essence one, and sounds differently … Inhabitants ancient mountain nahy (areas) name the republic Montenegro, and inhabitants of multinational coast call it Montenegro. And they live as if in two different, parallel worlds, — though and in one country … to Read completely »

Today I suggest you to plunge into history of Thailand a little. You can see all articles about Thailand in the section of a blog devoted to this country.

The ancient history of Thailand thoroughly is not known. It is known only, that about 5 thousand years ago on plateau Korat in a valley of Mekong (the northeast of modern Thailand) there were rural communities which have reached sufficient skill in agriculture, potter's business, and especially in metal working: it is considered, that ancient Chineses have adopted technologies of processing of copper from these ancient people.

This ancient civilisation has not left neither large monuments, nor temples, anything except working tools. Tajtsy as ethnos occur most likely from the Central China. Ancestors modern tajtsev slowly migrated in territory now being northern Thailand and have based the first Thai state in Phajau in 1096г. After the Mongolian gain of China northern Thai states have grown in sizes, and the cities of Sukotaj and Lannataj (kingdom in the north of territory of modern northern Thailand) became the most important in region. To read completely »