Southern Thai is classified as one of the Chiang Saen languages—others being Thai, Northern Thai and … See more

Phonyarit (2018) recognizes the following nine main dialects of Southern Thai, based on tone split and merger patterns.
• Nakhonsithammarat dialect (Standard), spoken in the upper part of Nakhon Si Thammara… See more

In Thailand, speakers of Southern Thai can be found in a contiguous region beginning as far north as southern part of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and extending southward to the border with Malaysia. Smaller nu… See more

Malay kingdoms ruled much of the Malay Peninsula, such as the Pattani Kingdom and Tambralinga, but most of the area, at one time or another, was under the rule of Srivijaya. The population of the Malay peninsula … See more

Although of the major regional languages of Thailand, Southern Thai is most similar in lexicon and grammar to Central Thai, the varieties are sufficiently different that mutual intelligibility between the two can be problematic… See more

• Bradley, David. (1992). "Southwestern Dai as a lingua franca." Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Vol. II.I:13, pp. 780–781.
• Levinson, David. Ethnic Groups Worldwide… See more