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See also Wikipedia page for Thai six-hour clock for more colloquial words you may find interesting. P.S. … If you feel interest and courage, please consider proposing a new site for Thai language and invite prominent users who would commit to it. …

This will be not a very scientific answer, but from experience, native Thai speakers use all types of approximants, flaps, and trills for ร /r/. …

Short answer: Because Thai language has other tools for expressing polarity (affirmation and negation). … As I said, Thai has different tools for expressing polarity: First off, ไม่ [mâj] is a negative particle (NEG), quite similar to English not. …

Quoting the same article: The problem with the traditional symbols is that they are pronounced quite differently in Thai. … พุทฺธ is /buddʰa/ in the ancient pronunciation, but พุทธ is /pʰut-tʰa/ in Thai pronunciation. (Thai doesn't use PHINTHU.) …

From orthography point, in complex scripts like Thai, you always look at the entire syllable, so one may argue that every vowel character is a combination character that "stick" around the consonant, just … Note that Thai vowels can stay on the left, right, top, or bottom of the consonant. …

Thai: โรตี [roː tiː] (a kind of puff pastry) spelled as โรตรี [roː triː] Ukrainian: прецедент [prɛ t͡sɛ dɛnt] precedent spelled as пренцендент [prɛn t͡sɛn dɛnt] English: drawing spelled as it was " … drawring" The Thai case is especially interesting since an opposite pattern is very common: consonants are often omitted from the consonant clusters: กลัว [kluːə] to be afraid spelled as กัว [kuːə …

The official system of Romanization of the Thai languiage is Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS). All road signs, landmarks, and so on are to be transcribed according to RTGS. … For example, one of the prominent resources for Thai language learners, Thai-Language.com, has several systems of Romanization: Note as you see, I prefer IPA over RTGS as it provides with complete information …

I see no contradiction here: Lao: ຊ (ຊ ຊ້າງ) [so sâːŋ] is a direct equivalent of Thai: ช ช้าง [tɕʰo tɕʰáːŋ] This even includes the meaning of the verbose name of the consonant ("an elephant"). … whole set of words will require different tone marks; It's a direct equivalent of Thai จ จาน [tɕo tɕaːn]; P.S. …

Tone sandhi is the term you are looking for. According to Wikipedia, Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morpheme …

I have also found a hypothesis expressed by Nantana Danvivathana in their book The Thai Writing System, page 188. … Quoting: Li Fan Kuei stated in his A Handbook of Comparative Tai (1977, pp. 256, 288-289) that in Lungchow, one of the Thai languages spoken in China, words written with <ไ-> in the Thai language are …

This video from Youtube, Stories behind Polite Endings in Thai ครับ/ค่ะ and Lao, answers all of your questions. … Yes, they have been used as both pronouns and polite particles, quite like in Thai. Are they an innovation in Thai [...] Not necessarily. Off the top of my head, take the English word sir. …