| Your
first name |
Chanyaporn
|
| Your
last name |
Parinyavottichai
|
| Preferred
name(s) of your language |
Chaochou |
| Alternative
names |
Chaochow,
Teochow, Teochew |
| Language
classification |
Sino-Tibetan,
Chinese |
| Geographic
areas where spoken |
Thailand |
| Approximate
number of monolingual speakers |
Most speakers
are Thai-Chaozhou bilinguals
|
| Approximate
number of fluent speakers |
1,058,400
|
| Other
languages spoken in area/country |
Thai, Laos
|
| Do
the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to
speak your language? |
yes |
| If
you answered yes to the above question, please specify |
Malaysia,
Signapore |
| Does
you language have a widely accepted writing system? |
yes
(in China) |
| If
you answered yes, what materials are written? |
Dictionary,
newspapers can use a mix of Chaochou, Thai and Mandarin |
| 1 |
tshek |
| 2 |
no |
| 3 |
sa
(saN) |
| 4 |
si |
| 5 |
ngow |
| 6 |
lak |
| 7 |
tshik |
| 8 |
poe |
| 9 |
kau |
| 10 |
tsap |
