Thai or THAI may refer to:
* Of or from
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
, a country in Southeast Asia.
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Thai people
Thai people, historically known as Siamese people, are an ethnic group native to Thailand. In a narrower and ethnic sense, the Thais are also a Tai peoples, Tai ethnic group dominant in Central Thailand, Central and Southern Thailand (Siam prope ...
, Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central and Southern Thailand.
** , Thai minority in southern Myanmar.
** , Bamar with Thai ancestry in Central Myanmar.
** Sukhothai language, a kind of
Thai topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they gradually diverged into regional variants, which subsequently developed into the modern Central Thai and Southern Thai.
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Central Thai language
Thai,In or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6 ...
or Siamese language, the sole official language in Thailand and first language of most people in Central Thailand, including
Thai Chinese
Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais) are persons of Chinese people, Chinese descent in Thailand. Thai Chinese are the largest mixed group in the country and the largest overseas Chinese community in the world with a popul ...
in Southern Thailand.
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Southern Thai language
Southern Thai ( ), also known as Dambro ( ), Pak Tai ( ), or "Southern language" ( ), is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand, as well as by small communities in the northernmost states of Malays ...
, or Southern Siamese language, or Tambralinga language, language of Southern Thailand first language of most people in Southern Thailand
*** Thai script
*** Thai (Unicode block)
People with the name
* Thai (surname), a Vietnamese version of Cai, including a list of people with the name
* Thai Lee (born 1958), an American businesswoman
* Thai Nguyen (fashion designer), Thai Nguyen, US-based Vietnamese fashion designer and television personality
Other uses
* Thai (cannabis), a name for the drug
* Thai Airways International, the national airline of Thailand
* Thai cat, a breed of cat in Thailand
* Thai, a month in the Tamil calendar
** Thai Pongal or simply Pongal, an agricultural festival in Tamil Nadu, India celebrated during the month
* Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI), a method of extracting oil from oil sands
* Thái people (Vietnam), an ethnic group in Vietnam
See also
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* Dai (disambiguation)
* Tai (disambiguation)
* Tay (disambiguation)
* Thais (disambiguation)
* Thay (disambiguation)
* Tie (disambiguation)
* Siam (disambiguation)
* Tai peoples or Thai peoples, the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia
* Thai tea or "cha-yen", a drink made from black tea
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