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Islam by country. Islam is a minority faith in Thailand, with statistics in 2006, suggesting 4.9% of the population are Muslim. [ 1][ 2] Figures as high as 5% of Thailand's population have also been mentioned. [ 3][ 4][ 5] A 2023 Pew Research Center survey gave 7%. [ 6] Thai Muslims are the largest religious minority in the country. [ 7]
The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows: Word. Romanization. English translation.
Muslims are the second largest religious group in Thailand at 4% to 5% of the population. Thailand's southernmost provinces - Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Satun, Trang, and part of Songkhla - have large Muslim populations, consisting of both ethnic Thai and Malay. Christians, mainly Catholics, represent about 4% of the population as of 2023.
Primary. A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [ 15] 39:6 [ 16] and elsewhere).
Surat Thani is located near the mouth of the Tapi River on the Gulf of Thailand. The city offers no major tourist attractions in itself, and is mainly known to tourists as the jumping-off point to Ko Samui , Ko Tao , and Ko Pha Ngan .
Narathiwat ( Thai: นราธิวาส, pronounced [nā.rāː.tʰí.wâːt]; Malay: Menara [ 5]) is one of the southern provinces ( changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from west clockwise) Yala and Pattani. To the south it borders the Malaysian state of Kelantan and Perak. The southern railway line ends in this province ...
The roots of Thai honorific registers lie in Khmer and Khmero-Indic (Pali or Sanskrit words borrowed first into Khmer, then from Khmer into Thai) loanwords. [2] Khmer and Khmero-Indic words were originally borrowed into Thai by an educated, Thai upper class, specifically kings and monks, in order to discuss Buddhism. When the need for honorific ...
Location of World Heritage Sites in Thailand. Gold dots indicate cultural sites and green dots are natural. Numbers 1-5 mark the locations of Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex: 1. Khao Yai; 2. Thap Lan; 3. Pang Sida; 4. Dong Yai; 5. Ta Phraya; and numbers 6-9 mark the locations of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex: 6.