Kum-Muang #1

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