• @modeler
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    820 days ago

    Just to add - Thai has a tonal system and distinguishes rising, low, medium, high and falling tones. This requires a bit more time to say so that there is time for the tone to change (or not change).

    • @acchariya
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      218 days ago

      In practical speech though, the tones get reduced to something like 2-3.

      My opinion on why Thai shows up this way is that pronouns and articles are often omitted, and a lot of meaning comes from very short end of sentence particles, and different vocabulary for different registers.