Thai in Thailand

Speakers

10.000.000 to 99.999.999

Type

Location

Thai in Thailand

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Thai in Thailand

Size

10.000.000 to 99.999.999

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Size / Number of users

Users within total population

97.00000
100 % use the language

PROPORTION

97
Source
census, 2010

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language

Age distribution of users

46,561,793
73
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2010

Age distribution of users

12,307,463
19
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2010

Age distribution of users

5,212,311
8
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2010

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

38
62
3,010,522
No education
Source

census, 2010

40
60
1,637,910
Early childhood education
Source

census, 2010

45
55
29,992,533
Primary education
Source

census, 2010

52
48
8,959,130
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2010

51
49
7,592,713
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2010

48
52
9,857,072
Tertiary education
Source

census, 2010

Occupational qualifications

51
49
4,334,158
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2010

65
35
2,684,863
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2010

66
34
2,979,829
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2010

51
49
15,799,207
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2010

42
58
6,177,104
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2010

36
64
1,143,616
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2010

45
55
1,020,534
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2010

42
58
1,866,833
Professionals
Source

census, 2010

65
35
858,850
Managers
Source

census, 2010

Language competence

Literacy of users

(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

(Almost) 100 % digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion