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 »

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