ASIAN Geographic

Best of Language 20 years

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No.120 Issue 5/2016

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Melting Pot

The Sounds of Southeast Asia

The Thai language is believed to have emerged in the 8th century, when Tai speakers migrated west and southwest to present-day Thailand from the border area between northern Vietnam and China’s Guangxi Province, the speculated birthplace of the Tai language family. Languages in

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