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Innerworld@lemmy.worldM to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 23 天前

Geographical distribution of the world's main language families

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Geographical distribution of the world's main language families

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Innerworld@lemmy.worldM to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 23 天前
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    Isn’t Thai Indo-European, being related to Sanskrit?

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      I think the Thai script may derive from some Sanskrit-related script, but the Thai language itself is in a family called the Kra–Dai languages, formerly known as Tai–Kadai

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