List of loanwords in Thai

The Thai language has many borrowed words from Sanskrit, Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms), English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows:

There are some Thai words which are spelled exactly the same as the English word e.g. format, lesbian etc.

Thai has also heavily influenced the forms of colloquial English spoken in Thailand (Tinglish).

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