The Khmer language has influenced, and also been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.

Khmer differs from neighboring languages such as Thai, Lao and Vietnamese in that it is not a tonal language.

The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowing from Thai, Lao and, to a lesser extent, Vietnamese.

In the Lao language, it is called phak see, and in Thai, it is known as phak chee Lao.

For example, in court of justice where strictly formal Thai language is used, Dr cannot be mentioned as a person's title.

The Mekong has thus not been an obstacle but a facilitator for communication, and the similarities between Laos and northeast Thai society — same people, same language — reflect the close contact that has existed across the river for centuries.

However, some written languages like Chinese, Japanese and Thai do not mark word boundaries in such a fashion, and in those languages text segmentation is a significant task requiring knowledge of the vocabulary and morphology of words in the language.

* At least four versions exist in the Thai language.

The language of the central Thai population is the educational language and administrative language.

The soy sauces which are used in Thai cuisine are of Chinese origin and the Thai names for them are ( wholly or partially ) loanwords from the Teochew language: si-io dam ( dark soy sauce ), si-io khao ( light soy sauce ), and taochiao ( fermented whole soy beans ).

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language radio services would end by March 2006 in order to finance the launch of an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, " a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant.

Other vernacular names include Nimm ( Punjabi ), Vembu ( Tamil ), Arya Veppu ( Malayalam ), Azad Dirakht ( Persian ), Nimba, Arishta, Picumarda ( Sanskrit, Oriya ), Limdo ( Gujarati language ) Kadu-Limba ( Marathi ), Dongoyaro ( in some Nigerian languages ), Margosa, Neem ( نيم ) ( Arabic ), Nimtree, Vepu ( వ ే ప ు), Vempu ( வ ே ம ் ப ு), Vepa ( వ ే ప ) ( Telugu ), Bevu ( ಕಹ ಿ ಬ ೇ ವ ು ( Kannada ), Kodu nimb ( Konkani ), ක ො හ ො ඹ ( Kohomba, Sinhala ), Tamar ( Burmese ), sầu đâu, xoan Ấn Độ ( Vietnamese ), ស ្ ដ ៅ ( Sdao, Khmer ), สะเดา ( Sadao, Thai ), אזדרכת ( Hebrew ), " Maliyirinin " ( Bambara language ) and Paraiso ( Spanish ).

Thai ( Phasa Thai ), more precisely Central Thai or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group.

The cuisines of the Lao in Laos and Isan have diverged only minutely, with the key differences is that Lao cuisine lacks the influences of Thai cuisine and Isan cuisine lacks many of the French influences in Laos.

The Thai and Isan term is usually spelt ไก ่ ย ่ าง ( kai yang ; Isan: ), although ป ิ้ งไก ่ ( ping kai ), a Thai letter rendering of the Laotian name, would be understood in Isan and in most of Thailand as well although to Thai ears it would sound a bit quaint, due to the slight grammatical difference between Thai and Laotian.

Impersonal verbs in Thai do not allow for an overt grammatical subject.

These include a large number of ethnic restaurants including Chinese, Thai, Greek, Pakistani, Italian, Indian and Mexican.

The Thai fighter's photo was on the magazine " The Primer of Nihon Kempo Karate-do, the first number " which was published by Yamada.

**: In Muay Thai, kicking to mid-body and head are scored highly generating a large number of points on judges ' scorecards.

Among them were a large number of Thai kickboxers, who were taken to the city of Ava.

On current data, slightly over half of the Thai population owns a mobile cellular telephone, with more numbers allocated than number of population.

To illustrate this appreciation of Thai cuisine: the number of Thai restaurants went up from four in 1970s London to between two and three hundred in less than 25 years.

# Thai borrowed a large number of words from Sanskrit and Pali, and the Thai alphabet was created so that the original spelling of these words could be preserved as much as possible.

This means that the Thai alphabet has a number of " duplicate " letters that represent separate sounds in Sanskrit and Pali ( e. g. the breathy voiced sounds bh, dh, ḍh, jh, gh and the retroflex sounds ṭ ṭ ḍ ḍh ṇ ) but which never represented distinct sounds in the Thai language.

# The desire to preserve original Sanskrit and Pali spellings also produces a particularly large number of duplicate ways of spelling sounds at the end of a syllable ( where Thai is strictly limited in the sounds that can occur but Sanskrit allowed all possibilities, especially once former final / a / was deleted ), as well as a number of silent letters.

Thai numerals (, IPA: ) constitute a numeral system of Thai number names for the Khmer numerals traditionally used in Thailand, also used for the more common Arabic numerals, and which follow the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

Thai sūn is written as oval 0 ( number ) when using Arabic numerals, but a small circle when using traditional numerals, and also means centre in other contexts.

The World Wide Center has a number of small ethnic businesses which include House of Lee Chinese Restaurant, NAM STE Indian Grocery, Bangkok Kitchen Thai Restaurant, and China Merchandise.

Thai Beverage Public Company Limited owns and distributes a number of significant brands including Chang beer and Mekhong and Sang Som rum.

The school has educated three monarchs: Mukarram Jah the last Nizam of Hyderabad, King Hussein of Jordan and his cousin, Faisal II, the last King of Iraq, and had among its pupils a large number from the Thai, Indian, Malaysian and Middle Eastern royal families.

There are a large number of restaurants with Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese cuisines.

Until a sufficient number of Lao pilots had been trained, Thai pilots, whose language was akin to Lao, would fill the close air support role, leaving U. S. Air Force planes free to strike interdiction targets.

* Ong-Bak: Muay Thai WarriorThai actor Tony Jaa performed a number of stunts for the film, suffering injuries such as a ligament injury and a sprained ankle.

The minority ethnic Thai inhabitants of Kelantan are mostly centered in an area around the coastal town of Tumpat, site of most of the state's two hundred or so Buddhist temples, and noteworthy for its number of relatively well-off Siamese villages.

Thai nationals, through training and experience, were gradually able to assume full managerial responsibility and the number of expatriate staff duly decreased, with expatriates accounting for less than one percent of staff based in Thailand in 1987.

And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

Examples of present-day abjads are the Arabic and Hebrew scripts ; true alphabets include Latin, Cyrillic, and Korean hangul ; and abugidas are used to write Tigrinya, Amharic, Hindi, and Thai.

In Thai, tone is determined primarily by the choice of consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

* 1981 – Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader ( b. 1910 )

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

* 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

* 1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand ( d. 2004 )

In addition to Eastern Armenian, many languages, such as Korean, Thai, Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, and the dialects of Chinese etc.

Thai cuisine employs bay leaf ( Thai name bai kra wan ) in a few Arab-influenced dishes, notably massaman curry.

File: Suphannahongsa-docked. jpg | Royal Barge Suphannahong docked at Wat Arun pier, one of the Thai royal barges featured in the royal barge ceremony

To make up for a lack of hard currency, Thailand's township, Amphoe Kut Chum, once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, was once Baht, and is still current in metaphorical expressions.

While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.