Potchanat S. answered • 11/01/19
Theoretical & Practical Linguist, English and Programming
In many ways. Most people will say it is an SVO and a tonal language. However, Thai does not always have to be a distinct SVO and Thai tones are dynamic contour tones (in contrast to pitches). Modern Central Thai tones are shifting and becoming more different from those of the last few centuries. Thai clusters are also beginning to fade due to different kinds of linguistic influences.
Thai is from Tai-Kadai family of language and is originally monosyllabic. There are 4 main Thai dialects to consider: Central Thai, Northern Thai, Northeastern Thai, and Southern Thai, all of which can be subdivided into a few more.
Structurally any part of the expressions can be omitted (natural in all languages) without even any external referencing.
Thais will include a lot of presuppositions and presumptions in their expressions. They can be very ambiguous and winding comparing to English.
It is not easy to answer this question. To completely list a language's differences, Thai in this case, from 'languages' is impossible. One must specify the L1-L2 pair to do the exact comparison.
