Alternate Names: Central Tai, Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Dialects: Khorat Thai (Korat, Thaikorat).
Status Notes: De facto national language.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 20,200,000 in Thailand (2000). 400,000 Khorat. 4,700,000 mother-tongue Thai are ethnic Chinese, or 80% of the Chinese (1984). Population total all countries: 20,396,930. L2 users: 40,000,000 in Thailand (2001 A. Diller).
Language Development: Fully developed. Bible: 1883–2011.
Typology: SVO.
Spoken In: Thailand
Writing System: Braille, Thai
Nation of Origin: Thailand
Other Comments: Ethnonym: Siamese. Buddhist, Christian.