Today I wanna teach you some Thai Northern language which is called " Kum-Muang" (กำเมือง). There are Chiang Mai, Mae-hong-sorn, Chaing Rai, Pa-yao, Nan, Lamphun, Lampang, Tark and Prae that use " Kam-Muang" for local conversation.
The gramma of Kam-Muang is similar to normal Thai language but using different vocabularies. Moreover, the Kam-Muang alpabets(Lanna alphabets or Tua Muang),are also different from Thai alphabets. For example,
= Lanna language ( ภาษาล้านนา)However, I'm not the expert about Lanna alphabets or Tua Muang so if you want to learn more you can check out this website http://www.omniglot.com/writing/lanna.html or
http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B3%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87 (Thai version)
Now this is the fun part, let's learn some Kam-muang words .....
Greeting
Hello = Sa-waddee-jao (for woman)
= Sa-waddee-kub (for man)
How are you? = Sa-bye-dee-kor
Did you have dinner yet? = Kin-kao-lang-laew-ka ?
Where are you going? = Ja-pai-nai?
Thank you= Kob-koon-jao (for woman)
= Kob-koon-kub (for man)
Yes = Man, Man-la
No = Ba-man, Ba-jai
Shopping
What is this? = Aun-ni-a-yhang ?
How much for this? = Aun-ni-kee-baht?
Can you discount? = Rod-noi-dai-kor?
This's so expensive!!!! = Kok, Yhang-ma-pang-ka-nard!!!!!
This's so cheap!!! = Took-ka-nard!!!
Toilet
Where is the toilet? = Hong-soum-pai-tang-dai?
Do you have toilet paper? = Mee-tid-shoo-kor?
Adjective
So bored! = Gai-ka-nard!
So beautiful = Ngarm-ka-nard, Ngarm-tae
So cute = Na-hug-ka-nard
So expensive = Pang-ka-nard
So cheap= Took-ka-nard, Took-tae-wa
So far= Kai-ka-nard, Kai-toe
So big= Yai-ka-nard, Luang-ka-nard
So small= Noi-ka-nard
So delicious = Lum-ka-nard, Lum-tae-lum-wa, Lum-tae
So stupid, so dumb = Ngao, Ngao-ka-nard, Sueng-tueng
So smart, so clever = Luark-ka-nard
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