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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Thai has no prefixes or suffixes, no genders for nouns, no articles, and no verb conjugation. What it does have instead, to drive a sane man crazy, is five different tones! You can say the same word five different tones and have it mean five completely different things.
"Ma ma ma ma ma" can mean 'the new silk is burning.' (And being severely deaf, I usually can't hear the tones anyway!)
Add to that the fact that there are 47 pronouns, and at least 17 for "I" and 19 for "you!"
Word order is a bit off-putting too... "Today my friend you me called." = 'Your friend called me today.'
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SE Asian languages are all like that?