Thai language

Thai, also known as Siamese or Central Thai, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people and the vast majority of Thai Chinese. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Over half of the words in Thai are borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. Spoken Thai is mutually intelligible with Laotian; the two languages are written with slightly different scripts, but linguistically similar.

Dialects and related languages

Thai is the official language of Thailand, spoken by over 20 million people (2000), Standard Thai is based on the register of the educated classes of Bangkok. In addition to Central Thai, Thailand is home to other related Tai languages. Although linguists usually classify these idioms as related, but distinct languages, native speakers often identify them as regional variants or dialects of the "same" Thai language, or as "different kinds of Thai".

List of Shortland Street characters

The following is a complete list of all characters that appear or have appeared on the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street. Included in the list are current and past core, recurring and guest characters.

Main and recurring characters

Characters which are currently active are in blue, original characters (which are non-active) are in yellow, and non-active characters are in white.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

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R

S

T

V

Vinne

W

Y

Characters with unknown names

Celebrities on Shortland Street

Character records

Longest running characters

Longest gap between appearances

References