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I suggest a Thai languages Codidact
I am a student of common Thai language for nearly a year.
I understand that common Thai language is about at least 75% similar to other Tai Kra-Dai languages such as Lao; let along, the writing systems are very similar and I can read a bit of Lao even though I never studied Lao for a moment.
I understand that Thai language (including Lao language, Isan-Thai language) share pretty much the same tonation system as well as the same Khmer-Thai diacritics system.
I understand that Thai and Khmer share many words (the similarity between Thai and Khmer is by itself a very interesting topic IMO); for example:
| English | Thai | Khmer |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ---------------- |
| I | กู (gu) | ខ្ញុំ (khiom) |
| Want | ต้องการ (tonggan) | ចង់បាន (changban) |
| This | นี้ (n^i) | នេះ (ni) |
| Food | อาหาร (ahan) | អាហារ (ahe'n) |
| For | สำหรับ (samhrab) | សម្រាប់ (samrheb) |
| Her | เธอ (t-ee-o') | នាង (n-ee-o) |
In modern Thai กู (gu) is archaic and ฉัน (chan)/ผม (phom) are used for woman/man respectively.
The site could be handy for many expats, tourists, and linguistics amateurs who want to learn focal data about Tai Kra-Dai languages.
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SE has what I gather are successful sites for some other languages (German, French, Japanese...), where the sites are about the language itself. (I don't mean "SO in $language".) I don't know much about their successes and challenges, since I can't read a lot of the content. Do you have experience on any of those sites? And do you know other Thai speakers/readers who would be interested in building this community? (We probably can't help as much as we'd like because of the language barrier.) — Monica Cellio 9 months ago
I recall mostly bad experiences from English Language and German language SE; back in the day at Linguistics SE I met there
user:bytebusterwho told me something like he tried to start a "Thai" community in StackExchange Area51 but the suggestion didn't get enough attention and deleted (to this day I misunderstand why they delete such valuable suggestions). Since my Linguistics SE account no longer exists (as with 99% of my accounts there) I can't contact him but I believe he would glad. — JohnDoea 9 months agoThere's https://languages.codidact.com/ now — user53100 6 months ago
There is now a community for languages in general, where questions about Thai are welcome, so I'm declining this one. Please participate there; we'd love to have you! — Monica Cellio 25 days ago