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 Colours in Thai [Cantonese lai]

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Sycamore
post Sep 17 2021, 07:28 PM

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This is in the 90s?
Imagine if this was released now. sweat.gif

Also never liked language jokes like this.
Sycamore
post Sep 17 2021, 07:44 PM

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Does this word สี have any relation with Chinese 色 though.
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post Sep 17 2021, 07:57 PM

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QUOTE(guailow83 @ Sep 17 2021, 07:49 PM)
ayam banana so can't comment much

but it's not uncommon for Thai borrow words from Chinese ie:

like invite in Thai: chern
Chinese: ching

tea: cha
Chinese: cha
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There are many Chinese loan word in Thai.
Some are very recent and some stratum traces back to very old reconstruction model.
Less than half a decade ago, popular historical linguistics theory believe Thai language belongs to a branch of Sino-Tibetan family.
But academic mostly abandoned this idea today.

 

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