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基本信息·出版社：Lonely Planet Publications Ltd
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2004年09月
·ISBN：174059231X
·条形码：9781740592314
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：Lonely Planet旅游指南: 泰语
内容简介 在线阅读本书
Including sections on cultural differences, protocol and etiquette as well as a menu decoder, this phrasebook includes a two-way dictionary, a pronunciation guide and essential words and phrases featuring real conversations and colloquialisms.
Thailand is the Land of Smiles. A grin shows companionship. A laugh shows forgiveness. But what if you need a second-class train ticket from Bangkok to Chiang Mai Keep smiling - this phrasebook will show you the way.
Myths about Thai
When people talk about the Thai language they are really referring to a Central Thai dialect that has succeeded in becoming the standard official language for the whole country. For this reason Thai is only spoken as a first language in the central provinces of the nation. As Thai is the official language of education, government and media it’s basically understood from North to South although recent estimates suggest that less than half the population of Thailand speak and understand Thai fluently.
Thailand
A country of southeast Asia on the Gulf of Thailand (formerly the Gulf of Siam), an arm of the South China Sea. Various Thai kingdoms were founded from the 13th century on, frequently coming into conflict with neighboring Burmese and Cambodian powers. Siam remained an absolute monarchy until 1932, when the king was compelled to accept a constitution, and the country was renamed Thailand in 1939. Thailand was occupied by the Japanese in World War II, and most of its numerous postwar governments were controlled by the military. Bangkok is the capital and the largest city. Population: 65,400,000.
Thai Language
Thai language, formerly Siamese, member of the Tai or Thai subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages). The official language of Thailand, Thai is spoken by approximately 50 million people in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Yunnan province of China. It has several dialects. Although most of the words are monosyllables, a number of them are polysyllabic. Because there is no inflection, word order is important for showing grammatical relationships. The Thai language is also tonal, and the tones serve to distinguish meanings of words otherwise pronounced alike. There are five tones: high, middle, low, rising, and falling. Over the centuries Thai has borrowed many words from Chinese, Khmer, Pali, Sanskrit, and, more recently, from European languages such as French and English. The Thai language has its own alphabet, which ultimately goes back to a script of S India and which was adopted in the 13th cent. A.D. Thai is written from left to right.
作者简介 Bruce Evans
Bruce Evans is a main author of some books published by the Lonely Planet Publications Ltd.
When Tony and Maureen Wheeler arrived in Sydney the day after Christmas 1972 after a six month Asia overland trip from Europe they had 27 cents left between them. In late 1973 they started Lonely Planet Publications to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, the story of their trip from London to Australia. From that self-published guidebook Lonely Planet Publications has grown to become the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne.
编辑推荐 THAI – THE FACTS
NAME: THAI
NAME IN LANGUAGE: PHAA-S?A THAI
LANGUAGE FAMILY: TAI
CLOSEST RELATIVES: LAO (Laos), SHAN (North Myanmar), KHAMPTI (India), LUE (China), ZHUANG
NUMBER OF SPEAKERS: approx 20 MILLION
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF: THAILAND
DID YOU KNOW?
Historically the Thai language was known in English as Siamese.
A North-Eastern dialect of Thai, known as Isaan, is identical to Lao.
THE THAI SCRIPT
The unique, ornately curved symbols of the Thai language are immediately recognisable to anyone who has visited Thailand. Though pleasing to look at, the Thai 'alphabet' is far more complex than our own. The script is actually comprised of 44 consonant symbols which are classified into three categories depending on the kinds of vowels they are associated with. Vowels are indicated by symbols, or combinations of symbols, that may appear before, after or even around the consonant – there are no spaces to help you separate one word from the next.
The Thai government adopted the Royal Thai General Transcription System (RTGS) as as a standardised form of writing Thai using a Roman 26-letter alphabet. You will notice its use in official government documents, road signs and on maps. RTGS is a convenient system but it’s too limited to account for all the sounds in Thai.
TONES
Thai - along with Mandarin, Vietnamese and Cantonese - is a 'tonal' language which means that the particular vocal pitch of a word may affect its meaning. For example the single syllable mai can mean 'new', 'wood', 'burn' and 'not' depending on the tone in which it is spoken. Thai has five such tones which are given in the chart below. The diacritic, or accent marker, corresponds to the system used in the current Lonely Planet Thai Phrasebook.
diacritic tone
none 1 – mid - a neutral tone spoken at the middle of the vocal range
` 2 - low - spoken at the bottom of the vocal range
^ 3 – falling - begins high and falls low
? 4 – high - spoken at the top of the vocal range
′ 5 – rising - starts low and rises to the top of the range
MYTHS ABOUT THAI
Everyone in Thailand speaks Thai.
When people talk about the Thai language they are really referring to a Central Thai dialect that has succeeded in becoming the standard official language for the whole country. For this reason Thai is only spoken as a first language in the central provinces of the nation. As Thai is the official language of education, government and media it’s basically understood from North to South although recent estimates suggest that less than half the population of Thailand speak and understand Thai fluently.
SAY IT IN THAI!
Hello. sà-wàt-dee
Goodbye. lah gòrn
Yes. chai
No. mai
I’m from Australia. (for a man).
pom mah jàhk brà-têt or-sà-drair-lee?a
I’m from Australia. (for a woman).
dì-chan mah jàhk brà-têt or-sà-drair-lee?a
It helps to have a sense of humour.
d?rng mee ah-rom kan nòy
Don’t worry, I’ll do it myself.
mai d?rng gang-won, chan jà tam eng
Thailand is the Land of Smiles. A grin shows companionship. A laugh shows forgiveness. But what if you need a second-class train ticket from Bangkok to Chiang Mai? Keep smiling - this phrasebook will show you the way.
目录 introduction
map
introduction
tools
pronunciation
vowel sounds
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