World's Most Complicated Writing System (corrections in the description) 

No one: Thai people in comment section: I failed in thai

I can’t even understand what he’s trying to explain-

As a Thai, I can confirm that our writing system is super hard - a single error could change the meaning entirely. We also don't use space that much in our writings so multiple words are squished together and you have to know the context like ตากลม which could mean either a round eye or enjoying the weather. Also, if you missed the correct tone by just a little, the result can be hilarious like สวย (beautiful) and ซวย (bad luck)

As a Thai person, I really agree with you especially nowadays it gets more and more complicated due to the variety of people that like to invent new words every day because they want to use it😂

i am Thai and i failed a thai exam so y'all have nothing to worry about lol

understanding Thai writing: hard understanding doctor's hand writing: expert understanding Thai doctor's hand writing: MEGA BRUTAL

Wow I've never realized how stupidly hard our writing systems are until you actually describe it.

Hi, I notice some mistakes in this video. In 5:10 ,the symbol of “mái dtrii” (ไม้ตรี) isn’t correct, it should be this symbol ๊ . That symbol you showed is called “mái tàikú” (ไม้ไต่คู้) which is used for another form of some short sound vowels. Anyway, I believe some Thai people still confused with using these two symbols. 😂 And the question about the tones at 7:30 ,it would be a whole lecture class to completely understand that but I’ll try my best to make it simple as much as possible. 1. Thai consonants divided into 3 types based on level of the sound. 2. Thai “words” has 5 tones which is based on the 4 tone markers and another one is the original sound of the consonant (no marker). 3. 3 types of Thai consonants have difference rules of using tone markers (the toughest one, same goes to Thai people 🥲). Btw, nice video and good luck on your Thai language learning. ❤

We must preserve Thai language. 3 seconds later “นะค่ะ”

In Thai Mai(ไม่)mean no Mai(ไม้) mean wood Mai(ไหม้) mean burn Mai(ไหม) mean silk Mai(ใหม่) mean new Mai(หมาย) mean warrant Mai(ไมค์) mean mic Mai(หม้าย) mean widow Mai(ไม,ทำไม) mean why All word is different.

I have learned Thai (and still learning to this day after many years), easy workaround all this complications is to just memorize the words and the way they are pronounced and written. A daily immersion in the language and contexts can easily bring this results.

Man, for me as a Thai national, the most tricky part is when you change the tone to pronounce the same word, the meaning changes. That’s how hard and tricky it is. So, many rounds of applause to all foreigners out there who could speak our language. YOU ROCK! and thank you for learning our language!~

As a Thai, I can tell that I still cannot remember all 44 Alphabets since grade 6...

As a thai, I promise to myself I’d never learn thai if it’s not my first language.

The thing is, Thai writing is almost the hardest language to write but it's also one of the most easy language to pronounce. Once you understand the language, the characters, vowels and tone marks already strongly indicate on how the word is supposed to pronounce.

Not me growing up in Thailand but went to high school in Canada learning about my own history language now. I can speak, read and write Thai like a sixth grader so genuinely had no idea about the language’s origins or wanting to research it on my own (Also I lowkey hated learning Thai history back home lol) Thank you for the juicy content 🤲💖

Complicate af writing system but super simple grammar , that's Thai.

"Thailand have the most complicated writting system" Medical Doctors: Hold my stethoscope.

As a Thai. Im proud of my self to be good at the language. Keep learning and you’ll be there someday

As a thai, I swear to god that I have been strugling with my own language so hard. The thing is it easy to speak but to speak correctly is really hard even for Thai people. In Thailand most of student failed thai language exam

I'm Thai tho, but Idk why listening to him was pretty more understandable than turning the Thai sub on

I learned the Thai writing system in 1 week. I died of brain cancer 2 hours later.

Nice vid with research! As a Thai, I agree it’s hard hahaha. I like the last part that you mention that everytime we write or speak Thai, it’s like we are walking through the past too. I never thought of that before

As a Thai, I really enjoy watching you pronounce Pho Khun Ram Khamhaeng and I rewatched that part of the video many times.😂👍

I'm gonna be honest i don't even understand what you are trying to explain

When you’re saying that Thai people can perfectly understand whatever their ancestors wrote ages ago. My deadass can’t read whatever was on 6:33 and I’m Thai, I’m concerned.

As I thai guy, the sound shift is from when you live near other country and you usually live near them, they can be sellers or anything and you accents started to change by them because you talk to them. Thailand have 5 regions. The northeast have accents similar to Laos and the language is little different from the capital city.

I’m Thai and I never understand the tone rules even though we learned about them since young age 😂 luckily they just come out so naturally for me because of the familiarity

I am a filipino and i live and study in thailand for basically my entire life. I was never really good at Thai. One day in class, my teacher called me to read a book out loud in front of the class. So, I read the book out loud infront of the class. After I was done. The teacher then asked me "Raf, are from grade 1? Your reading is terrible". I answered with the best excuse that I could think of; which was "I am a filipino". Now my teacher thinks that I'm some special kid

Thais before 14th century : Our current language is fine, no need to chang.. *King Ramkhamhaeng : So anyway, I started inventing.*

You've made me prouded of my language. Thank you

As a thai person *this shit is actually so fricking hard* Im a 6th grader and still cant remember all of the alphabets And some of the letters have the same sounds as other but changes sometimes AND ITS JUST SO FRICKIN HARD

In Thai we have "ๆ" which is use to replicate a word in front of it. If English have this feature, it'd be like "haๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆๆ" which equal to hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Very useful when we chatting online because we just hold "ๆ" botton. No need to type h and a and so on (or ctrl + C) I surprised that English don't have it. The first time I realized it I was like "Wait, where? no one create this symbol?"

I'm Thai and the fun fact is even thai people are confuse about their language because of some words have same sounds but different meanings. Example Mai (ไหม้) means burn Mai (ไม่) means no So sometimes when we want to buy some food or when we ask the cook to cook food. We will say mai(ไม่) mai (ไหม้)(Not burn) but the cook might think the costumer want mai (burn) food so they makes it burn lol.😂 It's one of the most famous joke in Thailand. Sorry if I spelled some words wrong because I'm not good at English.

I have no idea whether Thai is the most complicated since I have little knowledge about other languages. However, I totally agree with everything you explained about my language in this video. 😅

In Chinese, it is very possible to have multiple characters that are synonyms, and single characters that can have more than one meaning

Im thai and my score is: Thai: 51 English: 100 Chinese: 91 It's just reality.

I'm from Thailand English: A+ Thai: What is this WHAT IS THIS (ending up C) #Edit1: OMG THANK YOU FOR SO MUCH LIKES I ALMOST HAVE 2K LIKES NOW 💖 #EDIT2. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME REACH 2K LIKES 😩💅

Thank you for posting about thai

As a Thai. This video made my day. I'm not good or expert at anything but at least i'm grow up with the most difficult language and I'm nailed it !! Yeahh !!! P.S. Stay positive

Full Thai, still can't remember all the alphabet in order.

(G)I-DLE's Minnie is a Thai and she said that She wouldn't learn thai if she's not a thai

I'm Thai and I love Korean writing system (hangul the Romanized on is way more harder than pinyin imo), it's very instinctual. The easy part about Thai would be there's no conjugation in Thai as in there's a lot conjugations in western language. It's hard when I tried Deu/French but I think the hardest one would be Sanskrit for me.

Wow that's more detailed then what I learned in Thai school!

As the daughter of a Thai woman who never ended up learning this language because it's "too complicated", I'm starting to see why. I can't even learn French properly and this would kill me. Sometimes it makes me feel a bit disconnected from my family's roots, so it's nice to learn more about it occasionally though.

Everyone: *Picking Chinese system and modifies it* Thai: *Picking Indian system instead* I'm gonna do what's called pro gamer move

Posted 9 years ago. My stallion.

I’m Thai and I learn something new about Thai alphabet from your clip 🤩

Many​ Thai​ people​ failed in​ Thai​ exam and​ I'm​ one​ of​ the​m HaHa 😂😂😂

Every Thai : "I failed at Thai test" Indonesian and Malaysian : "wtf is this???? "

Hey, this video recommends me at the time I’m on Thailand. I love their speaking, and Bangkok basically reminds me like my home. Yes I’m born in Southeast Asia

We have five tones. But only the live mid-note consonants have all the tones. The high/low consonants combining have all the sound. (The high and low have matching pair......for the most part)

*Lalisa Manoban: **_*laughs in the corner_**

Hahahaha : I prefer the real laugh 5555 : I said, the real laugh ๕๕๕๕ : *Perfect*

As a someone who moved from Thailand at very young age, I can still speak and read Thai language but I have problem writing it. Since there are so many letters that make similar sound it's so hard for me to use the correct one to express the word I want to write.

5:10 ๘ is not symbol for tone but for short sound correct symbol for Mái dtrii is ๗

"Thai people can read what their ancestor wrote" Um... No

Fun fact : If you speak hindi or exclusively Sanskrit, You will be able to get out meanings from random Thai words which are almost same in our languages like Pranpriya or Swarnabhumi which literally translates to The Gold Land

As a Thai (fluent in Thai both I speaking and writing) I’m learning so much from this vid lol

Learning Thai language is like playing picture puzzle game. No rules about where to start , but anywhere. This is the true difficulty of Thai language. No strict clear rules , No fixed grammar rule for constructing sentences. This gives two perspectives of Thai language : Very easy and Very difficult at the same time. No fixed usage sentence pattern , so you have to create your own sentence patterns. It takes a lot of imagination to interpret and understand , especially writing.

Me being Thai but got a better grade in English subject: Me: Ight, time to change my nationality. Edit: Wait, how tf did I get 1K likes. TYSM🥺🙏💖✨

I'm a foreigner and used to live in Thailand for work. Here are the results : Understanding Thai values : less than a month Understanding Thai cultures : less than a month Understanding Thai people : approximately 2 weeks (they are extremely friendly and generous) Understanding Thai language : 2 years and I give up

ภาษาไทย and ພາສາລາວ is not that hard. Lao and Thai are very similar, but I would say Thai is a bit harder to learn how to read and write. That’s because Thai has more letters.

As a Thai, I can confirm this is true. Even Thai people still confused when it comes to writing, so if you are a foreigner trying to learn Thai and wonder why you never be good at writing, don't worry about it, as long as you can read or speak you're doing just fine.👍🏻

Thai person1: *say they fail in class Thai person2: *yes, relatable Thai person3: *ใช่ๆ somethingๆ Thai person4: *reply to person 3 in English Thai person3: *reply to person 4 in Thai The conversation goes on

English keyboard: hey not too bad- Thailand keyboard: *caps are gone, deal with OTHER letters*

I agree I am from Thai too, it’s harder than you think people

I normally really don't like how tonal languages sound but for some reason I find that Thai sounds really nice

Thai alphabet is split into 3 groups: high, middle, and low. Thus the tone markers work differently in each group and not having a tone marker also works differently in each group

"thai people cant read what their ancestors wrote" i cant even read my own hand writing, what did you expect? (im thai)

Transliterated literally, Pho Kun Ram Kamheang (?) would be “Duke Father Ram Kamheang”, because Kun, is also a word for “Nobles” or the “Nobility”, translated, it’d be a Duke or a Baron, The father part just means he’s the “Father of the land” if I remember correctly.

i'm currently learning thai right now and omg it's the most headache language i have ever learned... my head is constantly spinning and i'm doubting what i know every single day...

I used to work at a Thai restaurant, hearing the language everyday and reading what the boss always writes on random papers was like a whole experience 😂 beautifully written language too bad I don't understand anything

What I hate the most in the exam -They will give you a paragraph and ask what is the author feeling while writing this - A) *Sad* B) *Depressed* C) *Blue* Me: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENT!?

0:58 Chinese is slightly more complicated then that; each symbol is formed of multiple components (radicals) which you mix to get different meanings. Each word is assigned to a group of symbols loosely arranged to make a meaning.

I traveled too Thailand Yesterday [im half Thai] and suddenly this is what comes on my fyp and I gotta Thai ad before clicking on this. 😔

You have general knowledge of mechanic, history, and overview of Thai language better than most of Thai ppl themselves. Trust me, I'm Thai.

Korean is the easiest; Thai is hardest; BamBam, Minnie, Ten and Lalisa: *laughs in the corner*

2:31 You can spell Por Khun Ram Khamhaeng Por = Father he is the father of Thai ancient Langague

THIS VIDEO IS 9 YEARS OLD?! Dayum

I am exchange student in Thailand and really .... the writing system is no joke

NERDS ONLY I checked the description and comments, and I haven’t seen anyone mention this; thai tone rules are not as simple as adding tone markers. The consonants are separated into 3 different classes, two vowel lengths, and two different endings. Based on the way the consonants, vowel lengths, and endings interact with each other, one can determine the tone of the word...but ONLY if there isn’t a tone marker. If there IS a tone marker, one only needs to know the consonant class and corresponding tone marker rule to know the pronunciation. I’m not an expert, but this is how it’s been presented to me as a learner of the Thai language and American expat long term in Thailand. 🇹🇭

Interesting. Thai is my first langauge and I've never thought about it being that complicated before.

I’m Thai but can’t read anything written in 6:33 not sure if its because handwriting is terrible or writing system has changed

Thai Are Easy For Me as a Foreigner *Laugh in Lao*

I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned but I think the most frustrating part about Thai is that words aren’t separated per word,,, but per sentence :”) soasentencewilllooklikethis but bc vowels can be placed all around the consonants it can get so confusing esp when you’re just starting to learn the alphabet and familiarizing yourself with everything :”) I’m Thai descent so I’ve spoken the language since birth but never learned to read or write until I got to college lmao (and I took Korean during high school so I went :o!! when you mentioned how the two languages were like opposites since I never considered them that way) it’s been a year since I’ve started learning to read thai and it’s fun but alas all these rules get hecking frustrating for beginners hehe

Dang this was quality for 9 years ago

I’m Thai and want to share my opinion about ancient Thai writings that I think most people cannot understand the writings since the alphabet has changed a lot and some vocabularies has not been used for a long time. but yes, we can enjoy being an amateur archeologist by guessing the word written on the tablet !!!

False, a normal modern thai cannot read the old script in the temple ! The script are written mostly in sanskrit or something similar that are closer to modern khmer. But still even khmer people can’t read those.

same for thai people. i am from hong kong and here are my results: chinese: 46/100 english: 83/100 nothing to worry guys english is ez

I mean writing actual does change a little bit since it was invented

Thai writing system is very hard indeed. I has a friend who is Thai descending Malay.He can speak Thai perfectly because all people in his village speak Thai, but he has never learned Thai writing. Last year, he came to Thailand for his work. He is required to study Thai writing. He was alway complaining that thai writing was so hard that he would never able to write even though he can speak the language.

I can't understand Thai at all. But aesthetically it looks soo pretty to me since it is all curvers with little circles and the tonal marks look like sparkles. It looks like some sort of fairy language

Forget the writing system and start thinking about the food!

Thai has 5 tone sounds actually,เสียงสามัญ(normal),เสียงเอก(deep),เสียงโท(falling),เสียงตรี(high), เสียงจัตวา(rising) (I don’t know either whether the English in the parentheses is correct or not I just google how to let others know about Thai tone in English, so I don’t know where how they come because I learned the Thai sound in Thai words), BTW, the first one don’t have tone marks. Apart from that, we have tone marks ไม้เอก (่), ไม้โท(้), ไม้ตรี(๊), ไม้จัตวา (๋) (call the same as tone sounds with ไม้ instead of เสียง. However, sometimes you might realise that the tone marks and sounds didn’t accompany that is because we have ไตรยางศ์, การผันวรรณยุกต์ (tonal infection), คำตาย, and คำเป็น which will affect the forms and the tone. The grammar of verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb similar to English, but the order, particles using, and usually don’t use s, es, ed, ing or v. to be the same as Chinese. Therefore, learning Chinese will be easier than English when using sentence like can just place the words back and forth and that’s it. However, the difficulty is that remembering Chinese characters is very difficult as I don’t see the pictures as Chinese have. Even though I’m Chinese and don’t have any Thai bloodline in my family of the both sides (because they immigrated from China since the democratic and authoritative war), it is difficult for me as I learned Thai in my entire life, so I just have little basic knowledge of Chinese as I learned some in high school. Now, it’s even harder as I study in international program in the university and I learn Chinese as my free elective, but I can understand and remember Chinese characters more than before as the professor knows very well on how to help students remember. For Chinese characters, it’s like Greek root, if you know some of them, you can guess or mix and match them with other word and know the meaning something like that. My suggestion for who would like to learn Thai is that just know how to type, read, and write in Thai for daily life is fine (not include Thai words that is too difficult even for Thais), how to form sentences (sometimes, you can omitted the subject, this would be so natural), you can switch the order of words as well as long as it’s not weird, slangs come every day including cool phrases normally come from LGBT, knowing them would make you slay and fashionable like you are up to date.

I am Thai and i failed to get into medical school because of low score on the "Thai language" exam pulled the total score way down.

"thai people can read what their ancestors wrote" i can't

Straight A Thai student : I fear nothing. Pali amd Sanskrit differentiation exam : Straight A Thai student : I fear one thing.

Oh yeah also dont forget about the dead letters like ฅ or ฃ which uses to have a usage but now its collected dust in the thai alphabet