It is the official language of the country. It is a tonal language, without inflection and which uses mainly monosyllabic words. Most of polysyllabic words were borrowed, mainly from Khmer,Pali and Sanskrit. In the rural zones, dialects are also spoken.

You so will find below some basic sentences of this language, this lexicon do not claim to be able to teach you the Thai language, but simply some words in order to be able to manage yourself while in Thailand and try "to converse" with the local population.

Phonetic was adapted to our language and little to our way, by trying to get closer the most possible to the real "sounds" of the Thai language. There are, in some bookshops or supermarkets, books on how to learn Thai, and all differ when it comes to compare phonetics, given that the Thai language has never exactly been transcribed to our latin alphabet and given that phonetic can also vary from a language to another.

Note that the "r" is often pronounced as a "l".