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Thai spoken language is the opposite extreme of German, vowels are the salient parts and consonants are often barely present and highly interchangeable. I don't
by karmakaze 5y ago
Thai spoken language is the opposite extreme of German, vowels are the salient parts and consonants are often barely present and highly interchangeable. I don't know how the Thai written language works or how complex it is in comparison but I imagine it also wouldn't be a straightforward mapping. Quick lookup says it's tonal and analytic [idk what this is] like Chinese and Vietnamese.
- dwohnitmok 5y agoAnalytic languages tend to spread complex meaning across multiple words (e.g. stuff like when an action happened or the ordering of actions, etc.). Its opposite is synthetic languages, that tend to group complex meaning into a single word, such as via inflections (e.g. different tenses, prefixes, suffixes, etc.) or agglutination (glomming multiple words into a single word). So for example analytic languages tend to lack things like complex verb conjugation systems and instead use context or additional words to mark information about the time, subject, object, etc. of a verb. English for example is usually considered fairly analytic. While there are inflections, they tend to be a lot simpler than many other languages.
- philliphaydon 5y agoIf you wanna see a complicated writing system check out Bernese in Myanmar. It’s like a bunch of circles.