- From: Toby A Inkster <tobyink@goddamn.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:03:54 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
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One could mark this up as: <blockquote cite="urn:ISBN:0-415-22614-7"> <p> Thai is a tonal language, with the meaning of each syllable determined by the pitch at which it is pronounced. Standard Thai has five tones - mid, low, high, rising and falling. Thai has no noun or verb inflections: a noun has a single form, with no distinction between singular and plural, while past, present and future time can be conveyed by a single verb form. Like many other South-East Asian languages, Thai has a complex pronoun system, which reflects gender, age, social status, the formality of the situation and the degree of intimacy between speakers. Much of the original Thai lexicon is monosyllabic; a high percentage of polysyllabic words are foreign borrowings, particularly from the classical Indian languages, Sanskrit and Pali. </p> </blockquote> <p> <cite>David Smyth, Introduction to <span class="book"> Thai: An Essential Grammar</span></cite> </p> -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS | mailto:tobyink@goddamn.co.uk | pgp:0x6A2A7D39 aim:inka80 | icq:6622880 | yahoo:tobyink | jabber:tobyink@a-message.de http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/ | "You've got spam!" playing://(nothing)
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