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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Thailand > Malay, Pattani

Malay, Pattani

A language of Thailand

ISO 639-3mfa

Population  1,000,000 (2006 Mahidol).
Region  North, Songkhla (Singgora) Province, Chana (Chenok) region, south through Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, Saiburi, Tak Bai.
Language map  Southern Thailand, reference number 37
Alternate names   Thai Islam
Dialects  Different from Kedah Malay [meo] and Standard Malay [zsm].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Sumbawan, North and East, Malayic, Malay
A member of macrolanguage Malay [msa] (Malaysia).
Language use  Also use Central Thai [tha].
Language development  NT: 1981.
Writing system  Arabic script. Thai script.
Comments  Muslim, Christian.