A contrastive analysis of types of noun in Thai and English
Keywords:
Thai language, Tai-kadai, English language, Nouns, Contrastive analysisAbstract
The Thai language is Thailand's national language, written in its own alphabet, which is used to speak as the Thai standard language by Thai people. The Thai language is classified as a member of the Tai language group within the Tai-Kadai language family, which originated in what is now Southern China. The English language is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in Anglo-Saxon England in the early middle Ages. It is now the third most widely used language in the world, behind Mandarin and Spanish. The aim of this article mainly concentrates on a contrastive study of the types of nouns in Thai and English. It has been observed that there are a lot of differences in the syntactic features of these two languages. It is very interesting to note that some similarities among the nouns in these two languages. In Thai language, there are no variants forms of plural forms of noun.
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