Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thai tonal speaking is Tai tonal speaking group from south China. Thai alphabets, Thai vowels and Thai numerals are Khmer. Thais were Tai people running from the Mongol and they were helped by Khmers. The French created Latin alphabets and Arabic numerals for the Viets and Khmers created Khmer alphabets, Khmer vowels and Khmer numerals for Thais.

harrypotter271828 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I know that, the pronounciation of thai is like Vietnamese, Zhang language, Cantonese,etc. So the pronounciation of some thai words has different meaning in above languages. Anyway, I think thai is a funny language. There are some funny pronounciations, which have different meaning in Cantonese. Like flashlight-"fai-chaai" means "idiot, crappy people". Give-"hai" means the vagina.

txd1sHaNg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that's not exactly very nice....

Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And the English numerals borrowed from Arabic. And why we all know about these? Because we were taught by the English teacher. If this video owner wants to teach people to write Thai people must know where Thai writing comes from. Thai tonal speaking is Tai tonal speaking group in south of China. Thai writing system is Khmer writing system from Cambodia as people can see Khmer alphabets, Khmer vowels and Khmer numerals in Thai official language.

criskity (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The English LANGUAGE is Germanic with borrowings from Old French and other languages. The English ALPHABET is Roman, which came from Etruscan, which came from Greek, etc.

Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And how do you know the Etruscan? Isnt the English teacher taught you the truth? Before I learnt writing English, my English teacher taught me that the English is basically a Germanic that forced into Latin grammatical and The English has borrowed words from the French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Greek and thats how I knew where the English writing came from.

Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The video up loader has to write where the Thai writing came from otherwise people who learn writing Thai dont know that Thai alphabets, Thai vowels and Thai numerals are Khmer.

Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks to Khmer agressive otherwise Thai thieves would steal all Khmer culture, Khmer lands and Khmer temples and claimed belonging to Thais.

criskity (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Why does the video have to mention that? It's a lesson on how to write Thai, not on the history of Thai orthography. When teaching how to write the English, they don't need to tell you about the Etruscan alphabet, which is the direct ancestor of the Roman alphabet we use.

Soksabai79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Well, so where is the word Khmer in this video description?