Hey Professor, one of the important things among those unclear concludsion is “ We are “Thai “ and we have been very successful in Melting all ethnic groups & races to live in harmony . Thai culture today is still doing that way. These cultures adaptation is a slow process . We are also welcoming another cultures if those can be fit ( in a good & positive way ) into what it is (thai culture)today , then we mixing and ensuring all who living in Thailand are happy. Today we are taking western culture into our ways of life.
I adored the end of this video. It somehow deeply touched me. I was really hoping for this question to pop up. Thanks a lot and keep up the brilliant work
I agree! Especially in the current period of world history, where everything thing seems to be in turmoil (but maybe turmoil is the normal state of being for humans and their polities).
What a great insight into the ethnicity of Thais. The next time I'm in Thailand, I'll be looking at the local community with a little better understanding of who they are. I really liked the commentary on Thai nationalism.
Assam, north east India, also has many Tai tribes and communities like Tai Khamyung, Tai Khamti, Tai Phakial(Phake),Tai Shyam(Shan), Tai Turung and Tai Ahom. They were later comers after the Tibeto Burmese Bodos and the Mon Khmer Khasi and Jayantia. Alpine Kalitas are the other major community here.
@@54living Siam is a sanskrit word श्याम. It means dark. The Mon/Chinese ethnic dynasty that rule Siam/Thailand today are descendants of the the darker Mon ethnic and they are not related to the Shan/Tai or Lao. 山 shān mountain The Burmese and Chinese languages are from the same family. The word shan means mountain. They called KengTung(XiengTung) people shan because they live up in the mountain area. Shan State in Myanmar is mountain state. In history the called Lanna and Lanxang as Lanna Shan And Lanxang Shan. Siam did not existed yet, not until the fall of Ayutthaya.
@@54living ruclips.net/video/uKNYIgR3jG0/видео.html Shan means Siam in Chakri Siam/Thailand doctrine. Siam is a sanskrit word श्याम (sayama). It means dark. The Mon/Chinese ethnic dynasty that rule Siam/Thailand today are descendants of the the darker Mon ethnic and they are not related to the Shan/Tai or Lao. 山 shān mountain The Burmese and Chinese languages are from the same family. The word shan means mountain. They called KengTung(XiengTung) people shan because they live up in the mountain area. Shan State in Myanmar is mountain state. In history the called Lanna and Lanxang as Lanna Shan And Lanxang Shan. Siam did not existed yet, not until the fall of Ayutthaya.
Have you visited Myanmar? There is a state there in Eastern Myanmar called Shan state who are cousins of Thai people, and their language is also similar to Thai language.
Xisuanbanna (sip-song-pan-naa= 10.000 paddy fields), in Yunnan China still has among other minorities the Dai who are supposed to be of the same group of Tai (thai, shan, lao,and another group who moved to eastern India, this last losing every link with the same group). In modern times the language of Dai is understandable by thai people at least at 50%. I' ve visited southern Yunnan in 2005, it was a great place.
They speak a dialect more likely to Lao, Thai its linguistic means tribe(s) the word Thailand is only foxly adapted and changed from Siam by wisely Chinese decent then priminister during 1940s.... Thai and Tai have the same meaning where Tai is spoken by norntern accent of Thais and Lao...
@@TheNomadicProfessor sir you should learn the true history of thailand by asking some elder thai. Do not just search on internet when some of info can be fixed by khmer. Which khmer are slave of khom who built angkor I have some evidence of it . If you want to
The in pronunciation of numbers in Thai is the same as Chinese Dialect of Hakka, particularly the numbers 3,4,7,8,10, 11 and 20, 21,23,24..30,31..and some words like “gai” (chicken) are the same. There are many words adopted from Indian /Sanskrit words as well.
Hi, I am Asian, Thailand has a special place in my heart. Glad to see you travel for people, history and geography. Thanks for sharing,.i visited Ayutthaya thrice and was awed by its magnificent ruins.✌️😊 Post-Ayutthaya, the Siamese unification by King Taksin, the modernization by Chakri Rama V King Chulalongkorn and later established “identity” unified and saved the Kingdom of Thailand as a nation, society and political entity.
@Da PhetdalaHi, history is so dramatic that accepting them as factual is difficult sometimes so doubts about those in power "faked" history is understandable. The importance of it is that today. Thailand is a prosperous and peaceful nation with diverse ethnicity. Sawadee krub.
+Da Phetdala Thank you for sharing. I studied the history of SE Asian decades ago,it is the way historical text are written always with referral to the name of current sovereign geopolitical entity. However, it was only during my recent visit of Northern Thailand that the name "Lanna" was refreshed from one of the chapters in "the history of Siam" as a separate kingdom. During my visits to Thailand, I also noted that the distinctive local spoken language (accent) ,demographics and local culture of northern Thailand (Lanna). Indeed, it is impossible to ignore the geopolitical impacts due to historical colonization of southeast Asian kingdoms by Western powers and how it has shaped "Siam" and "Indochine" today. Whenever I arrived in the airports in Thailand, I always feel welcomed in the "Kingdom of Thailand" and really the future is all that matters.
@Da Phetdala I have met mixed race minorities (Eurasians and Asians included) in Thailand whom introduced themselves as "Khun Thai" the Thai nationality language, culture and their love for Thailand, nationality and citizenry comes before ethnicity, and I see this as positive for the future of Thailand. And whenever I think of Thailand, I wish and pray for its continued growth, peace and prosperity.
Da Phetdala Thank you, in my humble opinion, the chakri kings Rama IV and Rama V and the post 1932 "nationalists" did more for Kingdom of Thailand than any foreign powers since 1767. The nothern Lanna was horse-traded from the British and "liberated" from the Burmese; the Southern most provinces were annexed as buffer states to counter the British and Thais liberated Laos territories from the French. Without this "unification" the Thailand nation would have lost it like Burma (Myanmar). ✌️😊
This is fabulous. Have been binge watching your content. There is an uncanny similarity in so many nations trying to extend nationalist ideologies and force fit a cultivated identify. It helps 'nations' keep their citizens aligned to the political ideologies. Question is what is a nation and why is it so important to have nation states. Is it purely administrative and economic or is it meant to also bring people with similar cultural heritage together? If there is no unified cultural heritage is the purpose purely for economics ( control land, natural resources to further the interests of a group of peoples) ?
I found lot warring words from the comment section between the people of Cambodia and Thailand . Its done long ago, it better revive lost heritage ,but not the controversies. I like khemer for its vast irrigation system based on Angkor city. Both of your countries preserved invaluable heritage spots,which we lost in our country India
avinash ankamreddi Thai lost some land to Myanmar and city burned down but not stuck with history, live with today anf walk forward with neigbour Myanmar. But Khmer doesnt
@@JamieRedknap Nah, we're mostly chill with you guys. It's just some of us are mad because thais is trying to change history that the khmers was influenced by thais instead during ancient time [i'm not talking about modern thai/khmer] (also saying that the only reason the foreigners sided with khmers is because they want sth from khmer so they rewrite history for the khmer) and thais always mock khmer for their underdevelopment, which developed a quite condescending attitude in general.
បិជ អីសហៀ Trust me, Thai never tried to change history but just overly reacted by some emotional keyboard warriors after they got shocked, in online media accused ‘Siam thief’ by Khmers on many things of Thai own versions including lands during recent 4-5 yrs, despites Thais actually quite neutral and knew little with modern Khmer for decades, but just 5-10 recent yrs both country internal politics blew up nationalism issue. In TH, it s taught in schools that Thai groups came down here and rose after Angkor declined, Thai script inherited mon-khmer alphabets and share many common pali-sansakrit words, and no surprise cultures, tradition and arts shared among Thai, Lao, Myanmese, and Khmer bcoz religions, political marriage and wars driving people transfer.
i'm indonesian from sundanese race (west java) and i took the dna test months ago and the result are i'm 57% indonesian and 43% thai. maybe that's why i love thai food so much, i guess....
@Mustafa Alam From what I know, Taiwanese aborigines used the Philiippines as a springboard to migrate south to Malaysia and Indonesia. Mixed w/ the local populace then remigrated back to the Philippines during the collapse of Srivijayan Empire from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei. There were also migrations during the Majapahit Empire. And some parts of the Philippines were part of Brunei. This includes our capital, Manila.
@Mustafa Alam Some of my results from 23andMe: 10% chinese 5% indonesian/thai/khmer 1.3% spanish 1.1% japanese 0.7% indian 0.2% native american (mexican) Personally, I think it's more common for southeast asians to have indian ancestry than japanese though.
@Da Phetdala Lao Local is Khmer. ALL Land of Laos today is Khmer land in the past Lao people are mixed with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year. I say again Lao people are mixed with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year. Why I say That 698 CE Khun Lo the first king of Laos, Khun Lo set up Xieng Thong the city of the capital of the Lan Chang kingdom Xieng Thong is Luang Prabang today But Own land is Khmer Laos migrated live together with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year. if you say Thai close Khmer Look at yourself before being critical of others
@Da Phetdala Your southern of Lao is Kha city. Champasak Province Attapeu Province Salavan Province Savannakhet Province Khammouane Province Kha live in All Laos Lao government Say the main population in Laos 1 lao 2 Kha 3 Hmoong Kha or Khmer in Laos. They are not Barbarian In a small cottage like You think They work and live in the city drive a car the house has a TV อีโง่
@Da Phetdala lao and Thai are both Tai language. Lao people DNA are from Tai speaking people.....these Tai people exist even before Siam and Lao. Know your history!!!!
What made Siam great was that it was a melting pot of peoples and cultures. Like the Romans borrowed from Etruscans, Greeks and Trojans. Siam was influenced by Tai, Shan, Mon, Khmer, Indian, Chinese and so on. "Thailand" is a nation of mixed race peoples which managed to a achieve a level of cohesive multiculturalism, due in no small part to its Kings' acceptance of new ideas and embrassing foreigners. Many nationalities were employed at court. Trying to force a "Thai" ethnicity is silly and was only started by the Military Dictator Phibum. Thais are mostly a mix of Tai, Khmer, Chinese, Indian and more, there's no single "Thai" origin. Ethno Nationalists are idiots.
The name Prathet Thai means, "Land of the Free." Thai may be due to the races of Thai people - calling themselves "free." There is an enclave of the Thai even in China, and Vietnam. A region in northwest Vietnam called "Sip Song Cau Tai." - The twelve thai peoples. The Thai are typically the most polite people I have ever known. This discussion could go on. Nonetheless, you covered a lot of information in a very short time. Kudos! Keep up the good work.
Taikadai is just a language grouping coined by Paul K Benedict based on Siam doctrine and altered by Weera Ostapirat to be KraDai. Taikadai or KraDai has no historical reference or value. There is no such thing as Taikadai Tribe. Those people in history were called Lao.
Prof. This is very interesting vedio on Thailand for any student on SEA.of South Asia and Far East(China). Indic and Sinic(China)civilisational impact is very explicit here. Greater and multi discine study will through much light on the subject. Pl. a project on it. Thank you.
Thailand follows a "strong" national model. Similar in some ways to the Japanese. They have, as a result, achieved remarkable unity and economic success. Calling their antecedents "muddy" is probably true but it does not reflect the reality today.
Hla Mon I'm Khmer sad for Mon cousin also. Mon lost their kingdom to Burmese and Thai and Cham lost their land to Viet. Today only Khmer and Srijiva(Indonesian) left. We don't know about Khmer future because China, Thailand, and Vietnam are trying to occupy Cambodia through all kinds of way. I hope what they did to Mon and Khmer will get back at them one day soon. Fairness must happen.
As per We Hindu of Bharat Borsho (India) Sanskrit scriptures Myanmar is still recognized as BRAHMADESH and Thailand is still recognized as SHYAMDESH as part of our AKHANDO BHARAT BORSHO (United India) 🛕🚩🕉🙏🌏🇮🇳
There were 5 tribes of Thai who were subjugated by the Chinese (easy to do as they were busy fighting among themselves). The Thai's rebelled against their Chinese rulers and started moving south and adopted the name THAI which to them meant free . There was a very large battle in Northern Laos where 35,000 Thai warriors killed 250,000 Chinese led by a Chinese paper tiger general during their retreat (so the story goes).
Recently there have been debates among Thai historians and others regarding Thai history. The old history that said Thai people came from the Altai mountain near Mongolia and northern China has been debunked because there was no evidence to support that claim, but many Thais still want to claim it. Nanchao being a powerful Thai kingdom in Southern China is still debatable. Ramkhamhaeng and Sukhothai being the first Thai kingdom is still a controversy. There is no evidence of the people in Sukhothai in that time that called themselves "Thai". "Thai" came to be in Ayothaya. Ayothaya was Mon-Khmer. According to one of the Thai historians, one of the first Europeans who came to Siam, asked some of the people in the Palace in Ayothaya who they were. They told him they called themselves " Thai". He later asked were there any "Thais" living somewhere else. They told him yes, Thai yai (big Thai) who lived near the Salawin River, and Thai noi (small Thai) who lived in the lower Mekong River. He said which Thai are you? They said "Thai noi". Now Thai Yai is referred to the Shan people of Burma and Thai Noi is referred to the Lao people of Laos and Lanna. Thai people of Ayothaya were a mixed group of people, but mostly Lao and Mon-Khmer. The Thai language is Lao and heavyly borrowed from Khmer with an admixture of Chinese and other languages. For example, the word gold, in Lao its called Kham and in Khmer Tong, so in Thai they call it tongkham. "Thai" became a lengua franca for the Ayuthaya region due to proximity to the port and it was booming economically. There were mixed of many races. But the ruling class of Thais are so bent on nationalism that they failed to see other facts. They think they are a pure race. They think they are a homogeneous race. "Thai" meaning free is a modern invention for Thailand, but in other Tai-Kadai languages it means people, i.e. "TaiDam" Black Tais from the dam river, Taideng (red tais) from the deng river, Tai puan, from muang puan, etc.
Warcy pyu people r the same burmese people : Indian history and Tang Chinese history well recorded the pyu kingdom in two names , pyu or Brama( bamar). There r 42 Pyu towns including nine garrison towns. Nanzhao kingdom attacked only one Pyu town n how could Pyu people disappear in history? It makes no sense! Pyu Bamar people rebuilt their kingdom again in Bagan; the name Bagan comes from Pyu gama or pugarama( means Pyu village) and the first founding father of Bagan kingdom anawrahta had his ancestors all Pyu ! No history of saying Anawratha from nanzhao. And no history of mass migration of people from nanzhao to Pyu to overthrow Pyu ! Colonial historian GH Luce made false Kyause theory of Burmese as late comers n separated from Pyu:
@@msnmorningglory1290 Wrong, 1st migrants to Burma were from India (setup Tagaung), 2nd migrants to Burma were from Gansu, Qinghai lake, China (Tibeto Burman, setup Pyu), 3rd migrants from Kunming of China, called Myrama and setup Pagan emperor. In early Pagan era, there were 4 languages using in Pagan, Pyu, Mon, Myanmar and Pali (Rajkumar/Yazakumara's stone written has 4 languages, still in Pagan). Later, Phy & Pali disappeared, there are still Mon but nowadays minority in Burma.
54living you are wrong .migration theory are just imagination of some historians and no evidence or proof: the archeological evidence show Tagaung is a Pyu city . Whether King of Tagaung come from Kapilavatsu ( now India n Nepal border ) or not ,still need some evidence and proof . Pyu r the same Burmese people . Colonial historian Luce once made intended false history .Luce said he quote manshu records but it is also not included in manshu that Mang came into Pyu and became Burmese . Manshu only says nanzhao attacked one Pyu city and sacked and took Pyu in that town all . But Luce quote improperly that all Pyu were ruined and vacant area took by Mang . It is all about nonsense he had told . Besides Luce didn’t quote Chinese kings historical records of different era which clearly and precisely shows Pyu @ Brama ( bamar kingdom) . Chinese dynasty history records mention Burma as two names ; Pyu @ Brama ( BAMAR) country up to the late 13th century ( Late Bagan emperor before mongol invasion . India history continuously called Burma as bramadesh till now and English France Portugal all come in contact with the country called them Burma . Myanmar is just a literally transformation from Burma over a long time but orally we still call bamar pyi . Once in kongbaung dynasty the chief monk say we must write in original name of Brahma. Before Luce made false Kyaukse theory , all know that Pyu and Brama ( bamar) are the same. Did you know how Bagan inscription show so many times the name of people and country as Brama @bamar . Find out yourself and read. Mang ,a tribe ( a name called in Chinese) in nanzhao, has become Dai tribe ( just take a look at Chinese historian writings of nanzhao kingdom . Dai tribe speak tai Kauai language and not the same as Pyu or bamar which is a tibetoburman language. Do you know During nanzhao collapse many of Mang (now Dai Shan came into Pyu or Burma area : and King Anawrahta had to build about 30 guard town to control influx. The central region of original Pyu or bamar population is still there when Mang or daishan entered and lived in border area and hilly area.
54living Rajakumar stone inscription is not written in 4 languages but 3 ;old Burmese ( Pyu early form ) , new Burmese ( Bagan fonts) , Pali , and mon or Khmer .did you know during early scripts writings of Pyu @ Brama , they used different ranges of script forms from early Brahmi script to late brahmi script . Bagan fonts is also like Pyu writings in kinbakone 20 Pyu gold leaves manuscripts writings. Did you know one Egypt inscription written in two script for the same ethnic or people. During that times , they try to use many scripts to boast their knowledge. Pyu @ bamar r the same . Answer this : Bagan era use Pali language and so can you say there’s Pali ethnic. And about mon , it can be more likely that Khmer language. Mon are just a tribe in Khmer empire and when Khmer evicted them out of dvaravati ( the only recorded ancient mon town, now in Thailand ) they entered into Pyu @ bamar area as war refugees and kind Anawrahta accepted well . That’s all . And mon has very few and limited writings evidence in dravavati compared to Pyu and Bagan Burmese ; professor micheal Aung thwin even point out mon dravati fonts is not the same as Bagan mon fonts and early Bagan writing is much earlier than mon . Razarkumar is not the first in Bagan font , now king Sawlu inscription and others earlier than Rajakumar are found by historians . So it is more likely that war refugees mon used Burmese fonts style in Bagan . ( note: today Burmese curved and circle fonts has changed only since Inwa Burmese kingdom period . And mon copied and used it now too . ) CO bleden who didn’t know Burmese language well decipher the old Burmese Pyu writings and even so he say Pyu words and Bagan words r very similar and they r the same tibetoburman cousin language : he say . But if he could knowBurmese language well , he would surely have said the two are the same . During colonial times there r some historians points out the false in Luce Kyaukse theory but politically their voice r not out.
Being Thai, I will tell people. Thai is a culture, a mindset. Thailand is a melting pot, to be Thai you simply accept it's culture and live for each other. As it should be for any country. I've tested my DNA, I have a mix of South Asian, East Asian, Mongol and .1% Euro. My Haplogroup shows that I am a desendant of the same Siberian people who migrated to the Americas and became Native North and South Americans. This is actually a very small Haplogroup in Thailand, I've always known I don't physically fit in with most other Thais.
Roefensji Franzor Exactly my point. I actually ran it thru We gene recently. Yes I have southern Han but I have just as much Thai, Khmer. Kihn. Thailand is a melting pot and ethnic origin is not what makes you Thai. My mother and father were indeed from Bangkok. I am a US resident now so I'm definitely no longer typical Thai.
Thai is Multiculture most of people are mixed, Thailand is better than Cambodia and different from Cambodia. DON'T trying to say That Thailand is Mon-Khmer to make you can feel equal and feel like our great country is your. In fact main ethnic is Tai-Dai even tho they are mixed with mon-khmer-Chinese
Da Phetdala it' joke for me she is Lao be accepted Lao is very jealous Thai
She says the Most Thai people are a mix of Malay, Mon and Khmer people and she says Northern Thailand and Northeast Thailand are still majority Tai ethnic people Do you know? Northern and Northeast have a population of over 40 million 4-5 million is Khmer if you think Lao people is Tai The Most of Thai people is Lao are Tai more than Laos and Tai Largest group in the world is Thailand. background Laos land today is Khmen Land . History, don't you teach? If you say Thai is mix Khmen I say you. The people in Laos mix Khmen too
@Da Phetdala I told you again I'm not good at English. That is the only That you can still speak here R sound in Laos is ຣ ຣ this is Laos word R sound And what you should know All Laos land today is Khamen land in the past Luang Prabang is Kheman city in the past People in Southern of Laos is Khamen Blood Most of the population of Laos live in Southern of Laos If you say Thai is Mix Khamen I tell you. Lao people are Mix Khamen too if you say Thai Language mix Khamen word I tell you Lao Language mix Khamen too example Sabay dee in Hello word in Lao is Khmen word It's lucky for you That I'm not good at English
When I was young, I was thought to be proud as a Thai because we never really got colonized by European country. But the downside of this is that we only speak one language unlike the Indians and Malays, they can understand both English and their mother tongue. Painful truth...
If WW2 didn’t happen the countries that you said might not be independent westerner took a lot their resources and can order them what they want it’s true that we can speak only one language but we can learn like you and me and there are many countries that major people speak one language like Thailand.
Because we are mixed of many ethnics and people from China and the Mon, the former owner of the land and other indigenous people of the land of Thailand these days so it’s important for us to create new identity that everyone can be related to. Thai is invented term just 70+ years ago and to honor the Tai root however if you are from Chinese, Indian that came to Thailand around 200 -300 years you are automatically thai and the country is 700+ year old starting from Sukhothai.
Thais and Laotian were from the Bhutan and Assam about 6,000 years ago the people along the Mekong river are Laotian and original Thai people. Some of them came down to the Myanmar and to Northern Vietnam
No. Thais have the most origin from south china (some came from somewhere else probably but thats for a few only). The thai language was also actually sino-tibetan in the beginning until the indians came and the language changed for some part , now 50% of loanwords come from india ,40% of thai language are still loanwords from south chinese dialects and the rest of used words come from vietnam/iran/england
Pattani are Malays and will always be Malays, even the name of the southern parts are Malays Pattani = Petani (Farmers in Malay) Phuket = Bukit (Hills in Malay) Songkla = Senggora (city of lions similar to Singapura or Singapore)
shut up, state of Kedar, Kelantan, Terengganu, belongs to Thailand. In Ayuthaya period every state in Malaysia sent tribute to the King of Ayuthaya, even the state of Jahor and Aceh.
We may have been here for a long time. People who use the same language as us Indicates that there must be a certain part of the relationship Like family When separated, foreigners took the language to speak with But the accent will be adjusted according to the society that goes on
Lao people are Tai people, one group in the kidney group. Thai people as well Because we understand your language Lao name is just the name that the Chinese call only Thai and Burmese Mon, Khmer, Malay, different, cannot communicate with each other by using Thai language
@@Arnoo-ot8ki Tai came from the Zhuang and the Zhuang refer to themselves as Lao. Just to name a few Zhuang group. Tuliao, Tulao (土僚、土老) Tuzu (土族) Pulao, Puliao (濮僚)
"Who knows?", you asked. Well the people that still have the original language knows. Let's clear up the big misconception that Thai means Tai. When the Mon Dynasty of Siam changed it's name to Thailand in 1939, it officially declared that "Thai" means "free" because it was never colonized. The root word for Thai is "tHai" as "bail" or "ransom". Whereas "Tai" came from the root word "tDai" which means "people of" That being said Thai and Tai are two different words with two different root meanings. Thai and Tai are not interchangeable. Thailand does not mean Tailand because the Mon Dynasty didnot used another ethnic name to be the name of their Mon Kingdom. Mon were referred to as "siem" in Khmer history and that is why the Mon Kingdom was named Siam. Thai is just a new name that the Mon came up with in 1939. Tai is a name evolved from regional names as in TaiDam are from the Bkack River, TaiDaeng from the Red River, TaiAssam are from Assam State and etc. In Tai palm leaves manuscripts they referred to themselves as Lao. For example TaiDam migrated south from the Black River and founded two cities named Lao Cai and Lao Phan which is now part of Vietnam. Lao still use these two words but never as an ethnic name in the last 4000 years.
I think Tai Dam means natives of Dam, etc. In Tamil, the word Thai means mother. Tai Dam would then mean people who have Dam as their native place (or mother land). Khmer is Tamil (Chola empire) connected.
@@Anon13100 The word "tai" or "dai" means "of", it's not from tamil or sanskrit. The word "tai" is shared with the Mongolian word. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Mountains Altai Mountains means Mountains Of Gold because the golden grasslands resembles gold. Another example is in the Liao Kingdom, Khitan or Khatai called themselves "Slave of" heaven. The word "kha" and "tai" still means "slave" and "of" in Lao. TaiDam means "of Black River". In the past there was no group that called themselves just "Tai", it was always in a cognate form. e.g. TaiDaeng, TaiLue etc. Also there is a Lao group named PuTai meaning "of mountain". Lao also share vocabularies with Old Chinese.
@@Anon13100 Although Lao did have contact with Indian culture even back in ancient China prior to entering the Southeast Asia peninsula "Suvarnabhuma Peninsula". It may be possible that the word "tai" meaning of have a root from Tamil. Linguistic and cultural evidents points go ancient contact. ruclips.net/video/f0lxH1pUnlM/видео.html Etymology and History of Baci Ceremony The Baci Ceremony is a blessing ceremony that is not from Buddhism nor Hinduism but rather Brahmanism which is proto Hinduism that is over 4000 years old. This is a relic of Brahmi and Lao ancestral worship tradition. Blessings of health, wealth and prosperity, that is why this ceremony is held with all of life's milestones. Baci is a compound word, "ba" from the root word "to carry" and "ci" from the root word "radiance". The white string radiate from the pa kwuan "gathering spirit" centrepiece. The body is consist of 32 chakras and a kwuan for each. This is a ceremony to gather these spirits back and the string is to tie them on. Ba is to carry that is why people touch the string or elbow to signify carry and bless the intended person. This is uniquely a Lao culture because the name Baci is Lao. Also Lao groups that still exist in China pronounce the word for "ghost" as "bhee" which is a derivative of भूत "bhut". Modern Lao pronounce as "phee". This flip of the "b" and "p" sound is seen through such as Bhasa Pali in Lao is Phasa Bali. It would be of interest to look deeper into this.
@@Anon13100 Lao was in Kunming when the Buddhist envoy from Emperor Wu Di (141 - 87 BC) was denied passage. And yes it was Lao not Thai nor Tai because they didn't exist yet.
@@loogkaoneo2580 There are two types of Tamil connection for Khmers. One is the general Tamil connection with all languages of the world (going back 12,000 years to the times of Great Flood). I recommend that you watch the videos in the channel 'Tamil Chinthanaiyalar Peravai' (ruclips.net/user/tamilsantham) which reports some exciting new findings based on archaeological and anthropological evidences. The second is the (relatively modern) connection with the Chola empire. While the Khmer's and SEA's Tamil connection since 1000 AD is well understood, the modern connection could potentially go back even earlier. By the way, the Tamil preposition 'Udaiya' or simply 'Udai' means 'of'. Consistently, for example, TaiLue would mean Lue's and TaiDam would mean Dam's, which they of course do. In Tamil however, 'udai' goes as a suffix (ennudai means my; avaludai means her; paattudai(th) thalaivan means the hero of the song; 'Udaiyar' means 'possessor'). Thank you for enlightening me that the words Thai and tai are separate. The Tamil word 'thai' (with the longer vowel) means mother and the Tamil word 'thai' (with the shorter vowel) refers to a Tamil month (around January and February). The Tamil word 'thaiyal' means 'young girl'. I would appreciate if you tell me if the word 'Thai' exists in Lao for long or it was coined anew when the word 'Siam' was replaced; and also, the meaning of 'thai' in the Lao language. Also do Lao and Khmer languages share lots of vocabulary (I think Lao people are more Chinese and Khmers more Tamil, but the Indochina being a great melting bot, both groups have a significant amount of the other ethnic component).
There was Nothing like Thailand in SEA,Siam is a Malay land,Thailand was in Southern China. Sansekerta was sacret language its not to be taught so sub human . Chinese learn Martial art from Indonesia when they studied Mahayana Buddism .
All Penisula Malay native are Malay, with Moken(ni Mergui Islan), Tanahsari(in Malay), Urak Lawoi(Mean Orang Laut not Orang Laut of Riau, Johor, Natuna, Riau archipelago ), Proto-Malay(Temuan, Semelai, Orang Laut, Orang Kanaq, Orang Kallang, Orang Selat, Jakun), Austo-Asiatic Senoi, Semang, All South Thailand is Malays, Langkasuka, Ligor(Nakhon SI Thamarat or in Malay Negara Sri Dhamaraja), Sriwijaya. Kedah, Patani, Singgora, today, most in Thailand, Kedah lost , Phuket(Tanjung Salang/Junkceylon), Krabi(Gerahi), Trang(Terang), Santun(Setul), Ranong(Rundung), Phang-Nga( Pangan), Tanintharyi/Tenasserim (Tanahsari) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanintharyi_Region en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Malays en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedah_Malay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moken
Prof - luv your videos .... a fan ..... but dude you need to lower the intro music ...... it scares the sh&^%&*%&%&%&* if you r not expecting it going from one video to next.....My Girl Friend farted from the unexpected intro music volume...... just a fan .... want you to have 100k subscriber ..... but not with that volume ....... keep up the good work .. real S Asian history .........
So these people were kicked out by the Chinese then mixed with India, mons, Malays and called themselves Siam then later on they mixed with Persians, and Portuguese after the fall of Ayuthaya. The name Siam was later changed to Thailand. Then maybe 2 to 3 generation ago some Chinese came to thailand and more mixing happened again. But nowadays many Europeans, more Chinese and Americans are migrating to Thailand and again more mixing of bloodline! I say we have a great melting pot going on there!
We didn't call ourselves "Siam", Siam or Syam means dark skin people in Pali, and because of that the Khmer started to called us that just to brand us as foreigners.
Professor, are you LDS by chance? You used the phrase "principal ancestors," which I've heard used by Mormons exclusively, and you're wearing a white crew neck undershirt on a very hot and humid day. Mormons will know what I'm referring to. Edit: also saw later in the vid you're wearing USU gear.
Many but not most, most are mixed with south chinese ,lao and vietnamese. Except for the south of thailand theres many mxd with cambodian ,malay and south asian (indian/pakistani) i know several thai-indian and thai-pakistani families on that part but in bangkok and anywhere else thai-chinese , thai.lao anf thai-viet, with some thai-japanese married couples who i personally know from bangkok who have thai-japanese mixed kids. ...Now thailand and any other place in southeast asia is asian mixed , its not to compared with the past.
Why did the Khmer dynasty disappear from history? Why did Lavo, the creator of Ayothaya, who was a relative or ally of Nakhon Wat, who had never fought a war, the slaves and kill Khom Woraman Lavo, Ayothaya immediately raised an army to attack Nakhon Wat. After the slavery a man called Sweet Melon became king, and Nakhon Wat progressed to the point of collapse. Then the Khmer people could not build or repair the stone castle again. Culture declined and compared to the contemporary kingdom after Nakhon Wat "Ayothaya and the neighborhood" and Ayothaya has great buildings with high art. Each neighborhood is almost no different from the forest people hiding in a bamboo fence without any buildings comparable to Nakhon Wat. For hundreds of years, the Khmer people have been weak and defeated.
According to Khmer history written on the stonewalls in the temple of Bayon, modern Thai people were Sayam(Tai)or Siem, or Siam of southern Chinese. They were refugees, warriors, and bandits, who migrated to Khmer(Cambodia) territory. Of course, Cambodia landmass of today is no where close to the time of the Khmer empire. Through the centuries, the Siem adopted Khmer language , religion, and cultures. They have became among the Khmer populations. By the way, Muay Thai was Khmer invention, not Thai. When the internal politcal strife within the Khmer Empire broke out. The Siem fought for independence of their own. Khmer empire was devided, the outcome was emergence of a new kingdom, Siem or Siam. Sometime in 1940's Siam became Thailand. Today's Thai populations will deny many parts of their history. Their history curriculum taught in school and institutions are very deviated from the true historical facts. This misleading have created much anonymousity toward the Khmer/Cambodia. This is why Thailand has been hostile toward Cambodia, considering Thai and Cambodian were one time one family.
Chamnap Cheng khmer were Mahayana Buddhist and Hindu not Theravada Buddhist which most Thai are so Thai only got the Hindu part from khmer. In Thai language and in Khmer language there’s Thai and most song that were sang in Khmer court in the 18th and 19th century were sang in Thai. We do except that Khmer and other culture have influence us otherwise we wouldn’t mention it in documentaries. It’s actually quite sad how Cambodia ended up like what it is now when you compare to the Khmer had archive in the past. After Angkor fell khmer art resembles Thai and not those of Angkor. Tall temple towers building traditions were not continued. After Ayutthaya fell thai still manage to take back lands and push the Burmese out but khmer couldn’t do the same and considering how great they were it’s just tragic.
Every kid in China knows that there were three tribes fought with each other in around 4600 year ago. One tribe fleet to south east Asia after the war. That tribe has to be got something to do with Thai, Laos, Cambodian and vietnamese.
Apparently it seems nowadays they dont, i had discussions with chinese ppl who are directly from china (who dont live outside of china and never did) and those discussions were not very good until i had literally explain everything etc
re your last minute or two of this - has me wondering if you're Canadian and referring to government-driven nationalism ... sounds a lot like it, if you weren't. Also the bit about shunning if you don't toe the line smacks of Canada in a strong way too.....
Da Phetdala You stupid and bullshit Laotian again, be in every video about Thai, real butthurt Laotian lol. Thai are mix race but we have our culture and Kingdom that not yours so no matter what you trying to say who we are things that are ours still be ours keep crying over our history 😜
Da Phetdala Knowledge or bullshit there are many thing that you don’t know about our history and many thing that you know only one side of story but you choose to believe what you want to believe anyway we live on present if you won’t leave us alone just keep crying over our history.
Da Phetdala Our history is longer than 1936. Bullshit Laotian keep dreaming you never be like us. Thailand has been rich in culture and history this is FACT even you want to change it but NEVER😘
THE ORIGIN PEOPLE OF THAILAND IS MALAY LANGKASUKA THE MALAY EMPIRE NOW ARE KEDAH MALAYSIA WERE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA THAI PEOPLE FROM SOUTH CHINA ATTACK MALAY KINGDOM PATTANI AND CONQUER SIAM ( THAILAND) , CAMBODIA ALSO BELONGS TO MALAY KINGDOM CALL CHAMPA SOUTH EAST ASIA ORIGIN PEOPLE ARE MALAY WHEN THE IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA LIKE THAI, DAI VIET ATTACK THE MALAY THEY ALL RAN AWAY TO PENINSULA MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, INDONESIA, PHILIPPINES, BORNEO THEN THEY WERE CALLED MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
@@சிவம்கச்சாய்குமரன் While Buddhism in Thailand is disappearing, Sri Lanka sends monks to spread Buddhism to be strong.And also, while Buddhism in Sri Lanka is disappearing, Thailand sends monks to spread Buddhism to be strong.Thailand, thank you to Sri Lanka.
Yes, the name of that song in Thai is “Khamein Phai Rua” (Khmer boat rowing). Many classical Thai songs are from Cambodian music. I hope you don’t think that this means that Thai people are stealing it. Everyone who learns how to play this piece knows that it is Cambodian or at least that it is in a Cambodian style. It’s right there in the name, so no one is denying it!
@@dodos4225 oh really? Are you sure?Many Thai people still lost their minds in history, I hope they learn their true real identity and stop having a controversy with Khmer people and culture. Thai people have no respect toward Cambodia, Cambodia is your master, even your scholars accepted the truth that Thailand’s heritage is from Khmer, the number and language and land from Cambodia etc,.., without Cambodia there is no Thailand today. This Thai’s scholar is a very respectful people Unlike many Thai chose to accept false belief because Cambodia has become weak, you should learn real history not daydream ruclips.net/video/XimzhCdQgdg/видео.html&feature=share
Just because the Chinese are practicing (or mostly stuck) with the martial arts, doesn't mean it came from there. They are too fascinated by it and think that that's the only aspect of truth and living/well-being.
The reason yoga does not have martial arts as part of it ..is becoz the ancient Indians have their own ancient martial art systems like karipayattu and silambam to name a few as there are many more ancient martial art form .....only thing is it is not popularised outside of india whereas yoga has taken root in almost a 167 countries in the world...
It's not good to see a Hindu nation converted as Islamic. Of course Bali is a Hindu island we have only one nation for Hindus i.e., India. Let's protect our culture and way of living. And finally Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism.
@Da Phetdala buddhism is closely related to Hinduism that is what I am saying,both buddhism and Hinduism originated in india where Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world. Gautama buddha was a hindu before he started Hinduism. Check the history of buddhism
@@aryabhandkar9148 BUDDHA HIMSELF DENY TO BE HUNDU AND CHOOSES HIS OWN PATH, BUDDHA WAS AGAINST CASTE SYSTEM OF SANATAN DHARMA ,TEHRE IS NO RELIGION CALLED HINDUISM,CHECK YOUR VEDAS ,RAMAYAN OR MAHABHARATA, INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WAS CALLED BHARAT AND PEOPLE RELIGION WAS SANATAN DHARMA, IDEA OF HINDUISM CAME AS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN 19TH CENTURY,THAT'S WHY WE FOUND LOT OF NEW RELIGION IN INDIA LIKE ARYA SAMAJ BUDDHA MESSAGE SPREAD ALL OVER SOUTHEAST ASIA, NOW SANATAN DHARMA FOLLOWER TRYING TO PROVED BUDDHIST IS A PART OF HINDUISM, SHAME ON. IF BUDDHA WOULD HAVE ALIVE TODAY HE WOULD SHUT MOUTH OF THOSE CLAIMER
@@Malodaiofficial santan dharam is not based on cast system it is beyond of your imagination. The idea of cast system is originate when akhand Bharat ( unite india) had to be colonised by lots of outsiders. In many ancient Vedas they teach us how to make our live beautiful ND live healthier ,to make our spirit in pease,they tells the manusya(hauman) about caste originally in ancient vedo shri Krishna prabhu teach that the quality of karam(karma).bhagwan shri krishan tell normal person to do your karam(good deeds) not accepting anything in returns just do, that will decided your caste, that which type of antar atma(holy spirit) you are. in many years before some stupid people gives a wrong information,but now imagined caste system who is built by some filthy people,not exists anymore,caste system not exist anymore, Bharat(india) has very rich diversity, lots of verities of people,skin colour, food, land ND whether ND many more things beyond r imagination, lots of languages we have, one thing tell you that we are very old civilization on earth when nobody exists in many decades before akand Bharat(unity India) only speak one bhsha (one language) that is Sanskrit. I think local language also exsist but Sanskrit is the main bhasha of ankand Bharat (unite India). Buddhism is our has no dought. now Sanatan dharm has four branches that is Hindu, buddh,jain,sikh that is birth by santhan dharam. in school,we teaches about our ancestors.how to start all of these ND roots, ND plz don't ask,say anything if u still have question on ur mind than plz go to ancient Vedas ND do some more study .i m not here for fight, my moto just gives information, people who have Misconception about santan dharam, I m not expert but I have enough information that I want to share with. I know because in our school life we studied a lot ND also we live our daily life like that, Santana dharam is not complicated at all just live ur life being a better manush (human)(just being ur self) , sanatan just gives us way if u have difficulty to live ur daily life, that's gives us booste ND way how to out of difficult situation.mahatama buddh also gives us way of living good life make us better manush (human). that all why we are fighting we r one.we love all ,we r family, we relate to each other. 🙏lol from Bharat (India)🇮🇳 to akhand Bharat (unite India). 🙏💓🇮🇳💓🇮🇳💓"vasuvdev kutumbhk "mean whole world r my family.
@@thaibadboy7219 Bali is pretty much the same culture as Thai. Your monument on the airport that has mountain & dragon surrounding it has the same story :)
@Da Phetdala both are Abrahamic religion that has the same root from the Middle East. But at least Christianity is not that destructive/hateful as Islam. Islam teaches hatred toward human beings!
@Da Phetdala The word "tai" is shared with Mongolian and Lao since ancient times. Tai simply means "of" and it is used with a region or place name. E.G. TaiDam "of Black River", TaiDaeng "of Red River" etc. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Mountains Altai "alt is gold and tai is of" Mountains meaning Mountains Of Gold because the rolling golden grassland resembles gold. Yuan Dynasty that ruled China in the 13th century was Mongol. All these "Tai" kingdoms are 13th century. There is no such thing as Tai Yuan that came down to create Lanna. Yuan is Mongol. Chakri Dynasty of Siam came up with this Thai identity. That is why they adopted the Khmer "R". Words such as love "huk" becomes "ruk". The word us=hao=rao and this is to hide the fact that 60 percent of Siam is ethnic Lao before they sacked LanXang and enslaved Lao people in Issan. The Thai indentity is to create a rift between Lao people of Siam and LanXang that got gathered up into Issan.
Da Phetdala obviously, you trust and and have just one source to claim fact of this region history by using manuscript of people from over 2,000 miles away. The manu script is secondary data from being told with their own understaning and misconception. In reality, people in country with long history collect their own historical facts better than others from more various sources they have and much better than the only chinese manuscript you claimed.
loog kaoneo Not everyone, it s just your presumption. Loser naturally wrote different story and implanted memory to descendants only what they wanna show how good they were and who were bad guys did to them while winner wrote to show how brave and capable they were. By the way, others dont only rely on wikipedia. 😊
@@JamieRedknap Wikipedia id just convenient. The Chakri Dynasty is Mon ethnic and they created "Thai." Good luck finding Thai in actual ancient manuscript. Whereas Lao existed for thousands of years.
If our ancestors and our king are Laos or khmers why we have Thailand(Siam) don’t we just be in Laos or Cambodia or have Laobodia country instead of Thailand. We might have same root as Lao or khmer or Thai came from whatever but we are not completely same as you. We create our kingdom(Sukhothai, Ayutthaya,Rattanakosin) it was build by our people our kingdom not yours. Now Thailand is for all Thais we mix with each other and we proud of our nation our culture and our history.
Da Phetdala We never call Lao people Siam. Our king call himself Siam so we did like him did. Our king never once said he is Mon even we have Mon race in Siam.
Da Phetdala We never call themselves Lao and We call themselves Siam(Sa-yam) to describe people that live in this river basin area and its been so long that we call ourselves like this we didn’t call after Khmer there is Khoi book write in Ayutthaya era call this area ‘สามปเทส’ (Sam-pa-thet) similar to ‘สยามประเทศ’ (Siam-pra-thet) that we call our self and European that sailing from west side of Siam also call us Siam I’m sure that they didn’t hear it from khmer since they didn’t met Cambodia and khmer call us Siem. Siam in Pali can mean yellow or Gold and prathet mean country so it’s golden country.
Da Phetdala Sukhothai region definitely wasn’t called Lao It in the central of Thailand. People in this area were not Lao but more like Mon root they are Siam not Lao but the north and north east of Thailand we use to call them Lao even Lanna and Lanxang have different but we just call them all Lao because of their accent that different from central people and they didn’t live in central area.
Da Phetdala Lol then why he can’t name. It’s common name in Thailand and His real name is Ram Khamhaeng not only Khamhaeng mean Ram who is brave cuz his original name is only ‘Ram’. To honor our King his full name that people call is Pho khun Ramkhanhaeng the great.
Da Phetdala Lol you Laotian bullshit again and again try to claim that King Ramkhamhaeng is Laotian. Funny. Like I said Khamhaeng wasn’t his name since birth and Khamhaeng is from kamhaeng mean strong and brave then what Khamhaeng mean in Lao I want to know not only haeng word cuz he didn’t name Haeng.
BIg eyes ?? Nope... thailand and any other country in southeast asia is asian MIXED, and most thais in my fam. do not have big eyes at all only very very few. The most look closer to south chinese (i come frome a south chinese-thai mixed family but even the ones with no south chinese dont look much different) maybe others but this does not apply to all thai people at all ,bcs of like i said, the fact that all of SEA is mixed with different asian ethnicitys now. As a thai who lives in thailand ppl should actually notice this...
I am Indian and reside in Austria. I have visited Thailand many times. I feel very comfortable there. Thai are very much similar. Very Kind hearted.
zerpashmal we may look different but Thais are heavily influenced by Indian culture.
@Da Phetdala More specifically they are from the Tamil of Sri Lanka. Southeast Asia got influenced by the Tamil even pre Angkor era.
I hear they smile if you have money then can get from you.
This must be the most concise summary of Thai history I've encountered on YT. Not an easy task.
Very well done! Subbed.
Very underrated channel on youtube.
Hey Professor, one of the important things among those unclear concludsion is “ We are “Thai “ and we have been very successful in Melting all ethnic groups & races to live in harmony . Thai culture today is still doing that way. These cultures adaptation is a slow process . We are also welcoming another cultures if those can be fit ( in a good & positive way ) into what it is (thai culture)today , then we mixing and ensuring all who living in Thailand are happy. Today we are taking western culture into our ways of life.
I adored the end of this video. It somehow deeply touched me. I was really hoping for this question to pop up. Thanks a lot and keep up the brilliant work
I agree! Especially in the current period of world history, where everything thing seems to be in turmoil (but maybe turmoil is the normal state of being for humans and their polities).
What a great insight into the ethnicity of Thais. The next time I'm in Thailand, I'll be looking at the local community with a little better understanding of who they are. I really liked the commentary on Thai nationalism.
Assam, north east India, also has many Tai tribes and communities like Tai Khamyung, Tai Khamti, Tai Phakial(Phake),Tai Shyam(Shan), Tai Turung and Tai Ahom. They were later comers after the Tibeto Burmese Bodos and the Mon Khmer Khasi and Jayantia. Alpine Kalitas are the other major community here.
So misinformed. Here is a start for you, Shan does not mean Shyam. Shan is a Burmese and Chinese word for mountain.
@Da Phetdala มึงเป็นพวกครั่งชาติหรอ แย้งไปทั่วเลยย
@@loogkaoneo2580 Shan = Siam
@@54living Siam is a sanskrit word श्याम. It means dark.
The Mon/Chinese ethnic dynasty that rule Siam/Thailand today are descendants of the the darker Mon ethnic and they are not related to the Shan/Tai or Lao.
山
shān
mountain
The Burmese and Chinese languages are from the same family. The word shan means mountain. They called KengTung(XiengTung) people shan because they live up in the mountain area. Shan State in Myanmar is mountain state. In history the called Lanna and Lanxang as Lanna Shan And Lanxang Shan. Siam did not existed yet, not until the fall of Ayutthaya.
@@54living ruclips.net/video/uKNYIgR3jG0/видео.html
Shan means Siam in Chakri Siam/Thailand doctrine.
Siam is a sanskrit word श्याम (sayama). It means dark.
The Mon/Chinese ethnic dynasty that rule Siam/Thailand today are descendants of the the darker Mon ethnic and they are not related to the Shan/Tai or Lao.
山
shān
mountain
The Burmese and Chinese languages are from the same family. The word shan means mountain. They called KengTung(XiengTung) people shan because they live up in the mountain area. Shan State in Myanmar is mountain state. In history the called Lanna and Lanxang as Lanna Shan And Lanxang Shan. Siam did not existed yet, not until the fall of Ayutthaya.
Well done, I’ve lived in Thailand for 22 years and view myself as a historian of historical Siam.
Love Thailand from India 🇮🇳
Have you visited Myanmar? There is a state there in Eastern Myanmar called Shan state who are cousins of Thai people, and their language is also similar to Thai language.
I was lucky enough to visit Burma in the late 1990s. Loved it, despite its sad recent history. Haven't been back since, but I'll get there again!
Xisuanbanna (sip-song-pan-naa= 10.000 paddy fields), in Yunnan China still has among other minorities the Dai who are supposed to be of the same group of Tai (thai, shan, lao,and another group who moved to eastern India, this last losing every link with the same group).
In modern times the language of Dai is understandable by thai people at least at 50%.
I' ve visited southern Yunnan in 2005, it was a great place.
They speak a dialect more likely to Lao, Thai its linguistic means tribe(s) the word Thailand is only foxly adapted and changed from Siam by wisely Chinese decent then priminister during 1940s....
Thai and Tai have the same meaning where Tai is spoken by norntern accent of Thais and Lao...
@@TheNomadicProfessor sir you should learn the true history of thailand by asking some elder thai. Do not just search on internet when some of info can be fixed by khmer. Which khmer are slave of khom who built angkor I have some evidence of it . If you want to
The in pronunciation of numbers in Thai is the same as Chinese Dialect of Hakka, particularly the numbers 3,4,7,8,10, 11 and 20, 21,23,24..30,31..and some words like “gai” (chicken) are the same. There are many words adopted from Indian /Sanskrit words as well.
Thans you, and you unbias about thai history. and i agree with you.
Dude your channel is seriously under subscribed .... Awesome info . Keep up the good work!!
Thanks you brother you speaking truth
I’m from Cambodia 🇰🇭 thanks brother for the true history.
Professor please could you do a video on the term 'Aryan'. Curious tonsee the difference between the eastern and western definitions.
Hi, I am Asian, Thailand has a special place in my heart.
Glad to see you travel for people, history and geography. Thanks for sharing,.i visited Ayutthaya thrice and was awed by its magnificent ruins.✌️😊
Post-Ayutthaya, the Siamese unification by King Taksin, the modernization by Chakri Rama V King Chulalongkorn and later established “identity” unified and saved the Kingdom of Thailand as a nation, society and political entity.
@Da PhetdalaHi, history is so dramatic that accepting them as factual is difficult sometimes so doubts about those in power "faked" history is understandable. The importance of it is that today. Thailand is a prosperous and peaceful nation with diverse ethnicity. Sawadee krub.
+Da Phetdala Thank you for sharing. I studied the history of SE Asian decades ago,it is the way historical text are written always with referral to the name of current sovereign geopolitical entity. However, it was only during my recent visit of Northern Thailand that the name "Lanna" was refreshed from one of the chapters in "the history of Siam" as a separate kingdom. During my visits to Thailand, I also noted that the distinctive local spoken language (accent) ,demographics and local culture of northern Thailand (Lanna). Indeed, it is impossible to ignore the geopolitical impacts due to historical colonization of southeast Asian kingdoms by Western powers and how it has shaped "Siam" and "Indochine" today. Whenever I arrived in the airports in Thailand, I always feel welcomed in the "Kingdom of Thailand" and really the future is all that matters.
Da Phetdala the DNA pool in Bangkok is definitely more diverse than the four regions in Thailand. 🙏😊
@Da Phetdala I have met mixed race minorities (Eurasians and Asians included) in Thailand whom introduced themselves as "Khun Thai" the Thai nationality language, culture and their love for Thailand, nationality and citizenry comes before ethnicity, and I see this as positive for the future of Thailand. And whenever I think of Thailand, I wish and pray for its continued growth, peace and prosperity.
Da Phetdala Thank you, in my humble opinion, the chakri kings Rama IV and Rama V and the post 1932 "nationalists" did more for Kingdom of Thailand than any foreign powers since 1767. The nothern Lanna was horse-traded from the British and "liberated" from the Burmese; the Southern most provinces were annexed as buffer states to counter the British and Thais liberated Laos territories from the French. Without this "unification" the Thailand nation would have lost it like Burma (Myanmar).
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Thank you for the truth 🙏
Great video dude & avoided lèse majesté accusations. Well done.
Very nice, info was helpful . towards some research of my own.
Peace
This is fabulous. Have been binge watching your content. There is an uncanny similarity in so many nations trying to extend nationalist ideologies and force fit a cultivated identify. It helps 'nations' keep their citizens aligned to the political ideologies. Question is what is a nation and why is it so important to have nation states. Is it purely administrative and economic or is it meant to also bring people with similar cultural heritage together? If there is no unified cultural heritage is the purpose purely for economics ( control land, natural resources to further the interests of a group of peoples) ?
Ramayanam was an epic, a story written by an enlighted master, vaamekhi. You can find his samadhi(temple) at (Madras) chennai, adyar, thiruvaamiyur.
I found lot warring words from the comment section between the people of Cambodia and Thailand . Its done long ago, it better revive lost heritage ,but not the controversies. I like khemer for its vast irrigation system based on Angkor city. Both of your countries preserved invaluable heritage spots,which we lost in our country India
avinash ankamreddi Thai lost some land to Myanmar and city burned down but not stuck with history, live with today anf walk forward with neigbour Myanmar. But Khmer doesnt
@@JamieRedknap Nah, we're mostly chill with you guys. It's just some of us are mad because thais is trying to change history that the khmers was influenced by thais instead during ancient time [i'm not talking about modern thai/khmer] (also saying that the only reason the foreigners sided with khmers is because they want sth from khmer so they rewrite history for the khmer) and thais always mock khmer for their underdevelopment, which developed a quite condescending attitude in general.
ស្នេហាលាក់ខ្លួន ក្នុងសៀវភៅ true, their superior complex is too glaring, it’s blinding my eyes😖
បិជ អីសហៀ Trust me, Thai never tried to change history but just overly reacted by some emotional keyboard warriors after they got shocked, in online media accused ‘Siam thief’ by Khmers on many things of Thai own versions including lands during recent 4-5 yrs, despites Thais actually quite neutral and knew little with modern Khmer for decades, but just 5-10 recent yrs both country internal politics blew up nationalism issue. In TH, it s taught in schools that Thai groups came down here and rose after Angkor declined, Thai script inherited mon-khmer alphabets and share many common pali-sansakrit words, and no surprise cultures, tradition and arts shared among Thai, Lao, Myanmese, and Khmer bcoz religions, political marriage and wars driving people transfer.
i'm indonesian from sundanese race (west java) and i took the dna test months ago and the result are i'm 57% indonesian and 43% thai. maybe that's why i love thai food so much, i guess....
Could you upload the result ?
I'm filipino and I got 5% indonesian.
@Mustafa Alam From what I know, Taiwanese aborigines used the Philiippines as a springboard to migrate south to Malaysia and Indonesia. Mixed w/ the local populace then remigrated back to the Philippines during the collapse of Srivijayan Empire from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei. There were also migrations during the Majapahit Empire. And some parts of the Philippines were part of Brunei. This includes our capital, Manila.
@Mustafa Alam According to the "Out of Taiwan" theory, yes.
@Mustafa Alam Some of my results from 23andMe:
10% chinese
5% indonesian/thai/khmer
1.3% spanish
1.1% japanese
0.7% indian
0.2% native american (mexican)
Personally, I think it's more common for southeast asians to have indian ancestry than japanese though.
you are so knowledgeable
This is the truth that Thai move from China...Thanks for talk the true.
Muy Siv southern china was inhabited by the austro-tai people at first before chinese took over.
Not true
@Da Phetdala Lao Local is Khmer.
ALL Land of Laos today is Khmer land in the past
Lao people are mixed with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year.
I say again
Lao people are mixed with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year.
Why I say That
698 CE
Khun Lo the first king of Laos,
Khun Lo set up Xieng Thong the city of the capital of the Lan Chang kingdom
Xieng Thong is Luang Prabang today
But Own land is Khmer
Laos migrated live together with Khmer more Than the 1000 Year.
if you say Thai close Khmer
Look at yourself before being critical of others
@Da Phetdala Your southern of Lao is Kha city.
Champasak Province
Attapeu Province
Salavan Province
Savannakhet Province
Khammouane Province
Kha live in All Laos
Lao government Say the main population in Laos
1 lao
2 Kha
3 Hmoong
Kha or Khmer in Laos.
They are not Barbarian In a small cottage like You think
They work and live in the city
drive a car
the house has a TV
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@@nam1nam241 Regardless of mixed or not, it doesn't change the fact that it wad Lao that came from ancient China and not Thai or Tai.
people in the world move and mix.
Wonderful informations.Salute.
I liked this. I was adopted from northern Thailand , and I just ordered a genetics test. I want to know my Thai history.
Northern thailand was a seperate country which joined siam to fend off the burmese. If you want to know more look into the kingdom of lanna
Thai script began in Sukhothai. You can go read the walls in Temples, it's exactly the same writings from 700 years ago.
@Da Phetdala lao and Thai are both Tai language. Lao people DNA are from Tai speaking people.....these Tai people exist even before Siam and Lao. Know your history!!!!
The traditional music is 100% Khmer music which the Cambodian use it as popular .
The Thais teach you.
Why don't you think that 100 percent of Khmer music is imitating Thai music?
thai bloodline because Khmer is older than Thai but Siam and Khmer have same age.
@@khloksakhoeun5156 In the stone carvings at Angkor Wat, is there a picture of a musical instrument called the Ranad ?
thai bloodline called Ranead !
What made Siam great was that it was a melting pot of peoples and cultures. Like the Romans borrowed from Etruscans, Greeks and Trojans. Siam was influenced by Tai, Shan, Mon, Khmer, Indian, Chinese and so on. "Thailand" is a nation of mixed race peoples which managed to a achieve a level of cohesive multiculturalism, due in no small part to its Kings' acceptance of new ideas and embrassing foreigners. Many nationalities were employed at court.
Trying to force a "Thai" ethnicity is silly and was only started by the Military Dictator Phibum. Thais are mostly a mix of Tai, Khmer, Chinese, Indian and more, there's no single "Thai" origin. Ethno Nationalists are idiots.
The name Prathet Thai means, "Land of the Free." Thai may be due to the races of Thai people - calling themselves "free." There is an enclave of the Thai even in China, and Vietnam. A region in northwest Vietnam called "Sip Song Cau Tai." - The twelve thai peoples. The Thai are typically the most polite people I have ever known. This discussion could go on. Nonetheless, you covered a lot of information in a very short time. Kudos! Keep up the good work.
Tai-kadai people originated on area near yangtze river. Move south because of pressure from Han expand to Their area.
Taikadai is just a language grouping coined by Paul K Benedict based on Siam doctrine and altered by Weera Ostapirat to be KraDai. Taikadai or KraDai has no historical reference or value.
There is no such thing as Taikadai Tribe. Those people in history were called Lao.
Da Phetdala whatsoever they call themselves tai. tell me why you call yourself Lao then.
If anyone doesn't think Thai ppl were mostly from China, just look at the Thai food for a hint.
Prof. This is very interesting vedio on Thailand for any student on SEA.of South Asia and Far East(China).
Indic and Sinic(China)civilisational impact is very explicit here. Greater and multi discine study will through much light on the subject. Pl. a project on it. Thank you.
Thailand follows a "strong" national model. Similar in some ways to the Japanese. They have, as a result, achieved remarkable unity and economic success. Calling their antecedents "muddy" is probably true but it does not reflect the reality today.
Yoswin Freeman He is idiot khmer-lao just ignore him.
As a hindu from India, i love thai and all the SEAsian countries. They are blessed with absolute beauty
I am Mon people.
I heart about Mon I’m so sad.
Hla Mon mon is khmer
Hla Mon Yes sad, Mon was divided from his Khmer brother by the Tai. 😏
Hla Mon I'm Khmer sad for Mon cousin also. Mon lost their kingdom to Burmese and Thai and Cham lost their land to Viet. Today only Khmer and Srijiva(Indonesian) left. We don't know about Khmer future because China, Thailand, and Vietnam are trying to occupy Cambodia through all kinds of way. I hope what they did to Mon and Khmer will get back at them one day soon. Fairness must happen.
Thailand’s ruling class is ruled by Tai and Chinese
Chankri royal family also has Chinese blood
This is some really good work here
As per We Hindu of Bharat Borsho (India) Sanskrit scriptures Myanmar is still recognized as BRAHMADESH and Thailand is still recognized as SHYAMDESH as part of our AKHANDO BHARAT BORSHO (United India) 🛕🚩🕉🙏🌏🇮🇳
@Avijit Roy Chowdhury haha yeah
There were 5 tribes of Thai who were subjugated by the Chinese (easy to do as they were busy fighting among themselves). The Thai's rebelled against their Chinese rulers and started moving south and adopted the name THAI which to them meant free . There was a very large battle in Northern Laos where 35,000 Thai warriors killed 250,000 Chinese led by a Chinese paper tiger general during their retreat (so the story goes).
You’re better qualified than the experts
I love your work, hope you reply to comments
Recently there have been debates among Thai historians and others regarding Thai history. The old history that said Thai people came from the Altai mountain near Mongolia and northern China has been debunked because there was no evidence to support that claim, but many Thais still want to claim it. Nanchao being a powerful Thai kingdom in Southern China is still debatable. Ramkhamhaeng and Sukhothai being the first Thai kingdom is still a controversy. There is no evidence of the people in Sukhothai in that time that called themselves "Thai". "Thai" came to be in Ayothaya. Ayothaya was Mon-Khmer. According to one of the Thai historians, one of the first Europeans who came to Siam, asked some of the people in the Palace in Ayothaya who they were. They told him they called themselves " Thai". He later asked were there any "Thais" living somewhere else. They told him yes, Thai yai (big Thai) who lived near the Salawin River, and Thai noi (small Thai) who lived in the lower Mekong River. He said which Thai are you? They said "Thai noi". Now Thai Yai is referred to the Shan people of Burma and Thai Noi is referred to the Lao people of Laos and Lanna. Thai people of Ayothaya were a mixed group of people, but mostly Lao and Mon-Khmer. The Thai language is Lao and heavyly borrowed from Khmer with an admixture of Chinese and other languages. For example, the word gold, in Lao its called Kham and in Khmer Tong, so in Thai they call it tongkham. "Thai" became a lengua franca for the Ayuthaya region due to proximity to the port and it was booming economically. There were mixed of many races. But the ruling class of Thais are so bent on nationalism that they failed to see other facts. They think they are a pure race. They think they are a homogeneous race. "Thai" meaning free is a modern invention for Thailand, but in other Tai-Kadai languages it means people, i.e. "TaiDam" Black Tais from the dam river, Taideng (red tais) from the deng river, Tai puan, from muang puan, etc.
Great video
JAI JAI SRI RAM!
THE RAJENDRA CHOLA EMPIRE OF SOUTHERN INDIA EXPANDED TO FAR EAST ASIA
Can you do myanmar (Burma)
It’s a unknown country I want to learn more about it
The origin of Myanmar is written in link below.
eastasiaorigin.blogspot.com/2017/06/ethnic-origin-of-burmese.html
Warcy pyu people r the same burmese people : Indian history and Tang Chinese history well recorded the pyu kingdom in two names , pyu or Brama( bamar). There r 42 Pyu towns including nine garrison towns. Nanzhao kingdom attacked only one Pyu town n how could Pyu people disappear in history? It makes no sense! Pyu Bamar people rebuilt their kingdom again in Bagan; the name Bagan comes from Pyu gama or pugarama( means Pyu village) and the first founding father of Bagan kingdom anawrahta had his ancestors all Pyu ! No history of saying Anawratha from nanzhao. And no history of mass migration of people from nanzhao to Pyu to overthrow Pyu ! Colonial historian GH Luce made false Kyause theory of Burmese as late comers n separated from Pyu:
@@msnmorningglory1290 Wrong, 1st migrants to Burma were from India (setup Tagaung), 2nd migrants to Burma were from Gansu, Qinghai lake, China (Tibeto Burman, setup Pyu), 3rd migrants from Kunming of China, called Myrama and setup Pagan emperor. In early Pagan era, there were 4 languages using in Pagan, Pyu, Mon, Myanmar and Pali (Rajkumar/Yazakumara's stone written has 4 languages, still in Pagan). Later, Phy & Pali disappeared, there are still Mon but nowadays minority in Burma.
54living you are wrong .migration theory are just imagination of some historians and no evidence or proof: the archeological evidence show Tagaung is a Pyu city . Whether King of Tagaung come from Kapilavatsu ( now India n Nepal border ) or not ,still need some evidence and proof .
Pyu r the same Burmese people . Colonial historian Luce once made intended false history .Luce said he quote manshu records but it is also not included in manshu that Mang came into Pyu and became Burmese . Manshu only says nanzhao attacked one Pyu city and sacked and took Pyu in that town all . But Luce quote improperly that all Pyu were ruined and vacant area took by Mang . It is all about nonsense he had told . Besides Luce didn’t quote Chinese kings historical records of different era which clearly and precisely shows Pyu @ Brama ( bamar kingdom) . Chinese dynasty history records mention Burma as two names ; Pyu @ Brama ( BAMAR) country up to the late 13th century ( Late Bagan emperor before mongol invasion .
India history continuously called Burma as bramadesh till now and English France Portugal all come in contact with the country called them Burma .
Myanmar is just a literally transformation from Burma over a long time but orally we still call bamar pyi . Once in kongbaung dynasty the chief monk say we must write in original name of Brahma. Before Luce made false Kyaukse theory , all know that Pyu and Brama ( bamar) are the same.
Did you know how Bagan inscription show so many times the name of people and country as Brama @bamar . Find out yourself and read.
Mang ,a tribe ( a name called in Chinese) in nanzhao, has become Dai tribe ( just take a look at Chinese historian writings of nanzhao kingdom . Dai tribe speak tai Kauai language and not the same as Pyu or bamar which is a tibetoburman language.
Do you know During nanzhao collapse many of Mang (now Dai Shan came into Pyu or Burma area : and King Anawrahta had to build about 30 guard town to control influx. The central region of original Pyu or bamar population is still there when Mang or daishan entered and lived in border area and hilly area.
54living Rajakumar stone inscription is not written in 4 languages but 3 ;old Burmese ( Pyu early form ) , new Burmese ( Bagan fonts) , Pali , and mon or Khmer .did you know during early scripts writings of Pyu @ Brama , they used different ranges of script forms from early Brahmi script to late brahmi script . Bagan fonts is also like Pyu writings in kinbakone 20 Pyu gold leaves manuscripts writings.
Did you know one Egypt inscription written in two script for the same ethnic or people. During that times , they try to use many scripts to boast their knowledge. Pyu @ bamar r the same . Answer this : Bagan era use Pali language and so can you say there’s Pali ethnic.
And about mon , it can be more likely that Khmer language. Mon are just a tribe in Khmer empire and when Khmer evicted them out of dvaravati ( the only recorded ancient mon town, now in Thailand ) they entered into Pyu @ bamar area as war refugees and kind Anawrahta accepted well . That’s all . And mon has very few and limited writings evidence in dravavati compared to Pyu and Bagan Burmese ; professor micheal Aung thwin even point out mon dravati fonts is not the same as Bagan mon fonts and early Bagan writing is much earlier than mon . Razarkumar is not the first in Bagan font , now king Sawlu inscription and others earlier than Rajakumar are found by historians . So it is more likely that war refugees mon used Burmese fonts style in Bagan . ( note: today Burmese curved and circle fonts has changed only since Inwa Burmese kingdom period . And mon copied and used it now too . )
CO bleden who didn’t know Burmese language well decipher the old Burmese Pyu writings and even so he say Pyu words and Bagan words r very similar and they r the same tibetoburman cousin language : he say . But if he could knowBurmese language well , he would surely have said the two are the same . During colonial times there r some historians points out the false in Luce Kyaukse theory but politically their voice r not out.
Being Thai, I will tell people. Thai is a culture, a mindset. Thailand is a melting pot, to be Thai you simply accept it's culture and live for each other.
As it should be for any country.
I've tested my DNA, I have a mix of South Asian, East Asian, Mongol and .1% Euro. My Haplogroup shows that I am a desendant of the same Siberian people who migrated to the Americas and became Native North and South Americans.
This is actually a very small Haplogroup in Thailand, I've always known I don't physically fit in with most other Thais.
Roefensji Franzor Exactly my point. I actually ran it thru We gene recently. Yes I have southern Han but I have just as much Thai, Khmer. Kihn. Thailand is a melting pot and ethnic origin is not what makes you Thai.
My mother and father were indeed from Bangkok. I am a US resident now so I'm definitely no longer typical Thai.
Thai is Multiculture most of people are mixed, Thailand is better than Cambodia and different from Cambodia. DON'T trying to say That Thailand is Mon-Khmer to make you can feel equal and feel like our great country is your. In fact main ethnic is Tai-Dai even tho they are mixed with mon-khmer-Chinese
even Thai language are mostly miced with pali-sunkrit not Mon-khmer
Thai central people DNA is mostly Indochina-South China- Malayan with only 0.3 percent of Indian
ruclips.net/video/vVAql84_s10/видео.html Thai language is not mostly mixed with khmer you stupid fuckd
Thank god, buddist rule Thailand, om peace sanatan darma
Da Phetdala it' joke for me
she is Lao
be accepted Lao is very jealous Thai
She says the Most Thai people are a mix of Malay, Mon and Khmer people
and she says Northern Thailand and Northeast Thailand are still majority Tai ethnic people
Do you know?
Northern and Northeast
have a population of over 40 million
4-5 million is Khmer
if you think Lao people is Tai
The Most of Thai people is Lao are Tai more than Laos
and Tai Largest group in the world is Thailand.
background Laos land today is Khmen Land
.
History, don't you teach?
If you say Thai is mix Khmen
I say you. The people in Laos mix Khmen too
@Da Phetdala I told you again
I'm not good at English.
That is the only That you can still speak here
R sound in Laos is ຣ
ຣ this is Laos word R sound
And what you should know
All Laos land today is Khamen land in the past
Luang Prabang is Kheman city in the past
People in Southern of Laos is Khamen Blood
Most of the population of Laos live in Southern of Laos
If you say Thai is Mix Khamen
I tell you. Lao people are Mix Khamen too
if you say Thai Language mix Khamen word
I tell you Lao Language mix Khamen too
example Sabay dee in Hello word in Lao is Khmen word
It's lucky for you
That I'm not good at English
When I was young, I was thought to be proud as a Thai because we never really got colonized by European country. But the downside of this is that we only speak one language unlike the Indians and Malays, they can understand both English and their mother tongue. Painful truth...
If WW2 didn’t happen the countries that you said might not be independent westerner took a lot their resources and can order them what they want it’s true that we can speak only one language but we can learn like you and me and there are many countries that major people speak one language like Thailand.
‘Syam’ was the Khmer word for mercenary or hired soldier.
The word Thai derived from Tamil means mother Thai land means mother land
Hi. Love your stories on SE Asia. U used "if there is such a thing" a few times. I wonder what it really means or try to say. Cheers
Looks like Leonardo DiCaprio's character from 'The Beach' sobered up, started studying, and remained in Thailand as a scholarly tour guide
Because we are mixed of many ethnics and people from China and the Mon, the former owner of the land and other indigenous people of the land of Thailand these days so it’s important for us to create new identity that everyone can be related to. Thai is invented term just 70+ years ago and to honor the Tai root however if you are from Chinese, Indian that came to Thailand around 200 -300 years you are automatically thai and the country is 700+ year old starting from Sukhothai.
Thais and Laotian were from the Bhutan and Assam about 6,000 years ago the people along the Mekong river are Laotian and original Thai people. Some of them came down to the Myanmar and to Northern Vietnam
No. Thais have the most origin from south china (some came from somewhere else probably but thats for a few only). The thai language was also actually sino-tibetan in the beginning until the indians came and the language changed for some part , now 50% of loanwords come from india ,40% of thai language are still loanwords from south chinese dialects and the rest of used words come from vietnam/iran/england
Tu nam badnam karega kya?
i am Mon(Mon people) from Myanmar(Burma)
@ Thanks for your sharing.
@Da Phetdala yes, its ture. Thank You
@Da Phetdala i agree with you, yes, they are not Chinese.
Pattani are Malays and will always be Malays, even the name of the southern parts are Malays
Pattani = Petani (Farmers in Malay)
Phuket = Bukit (Hills in Malay)
Songkla = Senggora (city of lions similar to Singapura or Singapore)
shut up, state of Kedar, Kelantan, Terengganu, belongs to Thailand. In Ayuthaya period every state in Malaysia sent tribute to the King of Ayuthaya, even the state of Jahor and Aceh.
We may have been here for a long time. People who use the same language as us Indicates that there must be a certain part of the relationship Like family When separated, foreigners took the language to speak with But the accent will be adjusted according to the society that goes on
Lao people are Tai people, one group in the kidney group. Thai people as well Because we understand your language Lao name is just the name that the Chinese call only Thai and Burmese Mon, Khmer, Malay, different, cannot communicate with each other by using Thai language
@@Arnoo-ot8ki Tai came from the Zhuang and the Zhuang refer to themselves as Lao.
Just to name a few Zhuang group.
Tuliao, Tulao (土僚、土老)
Tuzu (土族)
Pulao, Puliao (濮僚)
The mons grouped in with thais
"Who knows?", you asked. Well the people that still have the original language knows.
Let's clear up the big misconception that Thai means Tai.
When the Mon Dynasty of Siam changed it's name to Thailand in 1939, it officially declared that "Thai" means "free" because it was never colonized. The root word for Thai is "tHai" as "bail" or "ransom".
Whereas "Tai" came from the root word "tDai" which means "people of"
That being said Thai and Tai are two different words with two different root meanings. Thai and Tai are not interchangeable. Thailand does not mean Tailand because the Mon Dynasty didnot used another ethnic name to be the name of their Mon Kingdom. Mon were referred to as "siem" in Khmer history and that is why the Mon Kingdom was named Siam. Thai is just a new name that the Mon came up with in 1939.
Tai is a name evolved from regional names as in TaiDam are from the Bkack River, TaiDaeng from the Red River, TaiAssam are from Assam State and etc. In Tai palm leaves manuscripts they referred to themselves as Lao. For example TaiDam migrated south from the Black River and founded two cities named Lao Cai and Lao Phan which is now part of Vietnam.
Lao still use these two words but never as an ethnic name in the last 4000 years.
I think Tai Dam means natives of Dam, etc. In Tamil, the word Thai means mother. Tai Dam would then mean people who have Dam as their native place (or mother land). Khmer is Tamil (Chola empire) connected.
@@Anon13100 The word "tai" or "dai" means "of", it's not from tamil or sanskrit. The word "tai" is shared with the Mongolian word.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Mountains
Altai Mountains means Mountains Of Gold because the golden grasslands resembles gold.
Another example is in the Liao Kingdom, Khitan or Khatai called themselves "Slave of" heaven. The word "kha" and "tai" still means "slave" and "of" in Lao.
TaiDam means "of Black River". In the past there was no group that called themselves just "Tai", it was always in a cognate form. e.g. TaiDaeng, TaiLue etc. Also there is a Lao group named PuTai meaning "of mountain".
Lao also share vocabularies with Old Chinese.
@@Anon13100 Although Lao did have contact with Indian culture even back in ancient China prior to entering the Southeast Asia peninsula "Suvarnabhuma Peninsula".
It may be possible that the word "tai" meaning of have a root from Tamil. Linguistic and cultural evidents points go ancient contact.
ruclips.net/video/f0lxH1pUnlM/видео.html
Etymology and History of Baci Ceremony
The Baci Ceremony is a blessing ceremony that is not from Buddhism nor Hinduism but rather Brahmanism which is proto Hinduism that is over 4000 years old. This is a relic of Brahmi and Lao ancestral worship tradition. Blessings of health, wealth and prosperity, that is why this ceremony is held with all of life's milestones.
Baci is a compound word, "ba" from the root word "to carry" and "ci" from the root word "radiance". The white string radiate from the pa kwuan "gathering spirit" centrepiece. The body is consist of 32 chakras and a kwuan for each. This is a ceremony to gather these spirits back and the string is to tie them on. Ba is to carry that is why people touch the string or elbow to signify carry and bless the intended person.
This is uniquely a Lao culture because the name Baci is Lao.
Also Lao groups that still exist in China pronounce the word for "ghost" as "bhee" which is a derivative of भूत "bhut". Modern Lao pronounce as "phee". This flip of the "b" and "p" sound is seen through such as Bhasa Pali in Lao is Phasa Bali.
It would be of interest to look deeper into this.
@@Anon13100 Lao was in Kunming when the Buddhist envoy from Emperor Wu Di (141 - 87 BC) was denied passage. And yes it was Lao not Thai nor Tai because they didn't exist yet.
@@loogkaoneo2580 There are two types of Tamil connection for Khmers. One is the general Tamil connection with all languages of the world (going back 12,000 years to the times of Great Flood). I recommend that you watch the videos in the channel 'Tamil Chinthanaiyalar Peravai' (ruclips.net/user/tamilsantham) which reports some exciting new findings based on archaeological and anthropological evidences. The second is the (relatively modern) connection with the Chola empire. While the Khmer's and SEA's Tamil connection since 1000 AD is well understood, the modern connection could potentially go back even earlier.
By the way, the Tamil preposition 'Udaiya' or simply 'Udai' means 'of'. Consistently, for example, TaiLue would mean Lue's and TaiDam would mean Dam's, which they of course do. In Tamil however, 'udai' goes as a suffix (ennudai means my; avaludai means her; paattudai(th) thalaivan means the hero of the song; 'Udaiyar' means 'possessor').
Thank you for enlightening me that the words Thai and tai are separate. The Tamil word 'thai' (with the longer vowel) means mother and the Tamil word 'thai' (with the shorter vowel) refers to a Tamil month (around January and February). The Tamil word 'thaiyal' means 'young girl'. I would appreciate if you tell me if the word 'Thai' exists in Lao for long or it was coined anew when the word 'Siam' was replaced; and also, the meaning of 'thai' in the Lao language. Also do Lao and Khmer languages share lots of vocabulary (I think Lao people are more Chinese and Khmers more Tamil, but the Indochina being a great melting bot, both groups have a significant amount of the other ethnic component).
There was Nothing like Thailand in SEA,Siam is a Malay land,Thailand was in Southern China. Sansekerta was sacret language its not to be taught so sub human .
Chinese learn Martial art from Indonesia when they studied Mahayana Buddism .
All Penisula Malay native are Malay, with Moken(ni Mergui Islan), Tanahsari(in Malay), Urak Lawoi(Mean Orang Laut not Orang Laut of Riau, Johor, Natuna, Riau archipelago ), Proto-Malay(Temuan, Semelai, Orang Laut, Orang Kanaq, Orang Kallang, Orang Selat, Jakun), Austo-Asiatic Senoi, Semang, All South Thailand is Malays, Langkasuka, Ligor(Nakhon SI Thamarat or in Malay Negara Sri Dhamaraja), Sriwijaya. Kedah, Patani, Singgora, today, most in Thailand, Kedah lost , Phuket(Tanjung Salang/Junkceylon), Krabi(Gerahi), Trang(Terang), Santun(Setul), Ranong(Rundung), Phang-Nga(
Pangan), Tanintharyi/Tenasserim (Tanahsari)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanintharyi_Region
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Malays
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedah_Malay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moken
FCOMMENT: Do speak with FACTS please..
I'm Spanish, and want to learn Sanskrit, the coolest Indian language. But Latin first.
I love Thailand good food good people good country look for future and make it better
How did they recover from Burmese invasion?
Prof - luv your videos .... a fan ..... but dude you need to lower the intro music ...... it scares the sh&^%&*%&%&%&* if you r not expecting it going from one video to next.....My Girl Friend farted from the unexpected intro music volume...... just a fan .... want you to have 100k subscriber ..... but not with that volume ....... keep up the good work .. real S Asian history .........
Ayuthaya was old capital may be 650 ago destroy by Myanma(Aug wa) attack 1767
So these people were kicked out by the Chinese then mixed with India, mons, Malays and called themselves Siam then later on they mixed with Persians, and Portuguese after the fall of Ayuthaya. The name Siam was later changed to Thailand. Then maybe 2 to 3 generation ago some Chinese came to thailand and more mixing happened again. But nowadays many Europeans, more Chinese and Americans are migrating to Thailand and again more mixing of bloodline! I say we have a great melting pot going on there!
Persian?
Mustafa Alam tourist
We didn't call ourselves "Siam", Siam or Syam means dark skin people in Pali, and because of that the Khmer started to called us that just to brand us as foreigners.
J No more Future Thai will become European nation physically because there are too many mixed. It's going to another Latin nation.
Please No. European don't mixed with us please
Professor, are you LDS by chance? You used the phrase "principal ancestors," which I've heard used by Mormons exclusively, and you're wearing a white crew neck undershirt on a very hot and humid day. Mormons will know what I'm referring to. Edit: also saw later in the vid you're wearing USU gear.
Many Thai people have Khmer root
Da Phetdala thank you very much! I agree with you.
thai bloodline Thank you for your comment.
Many but not most, most are mixed with south chinese ,lao and vietnamese. Except for the south of thailand theres many mxd with cambodian ,malay and south asian (indian/pakistani) i know several thai-indian and thai-pakistani families on that part but in bangkok and anywhere else thai-chinese , thai.lao anf thai-viet, with some thai-japanese married couples who i personally know from bangkok who have thai-japanese mixed kids. ...Now thailand and any other place in southeast asia is asian mixed , its not to compared with the past.
Waoo impressive...
Why did the Khmer dynasty disappear from history?
Why did Lavo, the creator of Ayothaya, who was a relative or ally of Nakhon Wat, who had never fought a war, the slaves and kill Khom Woraman Lavo, Ayothaya immediately raised an army to attack Nakhon Wat.
After the slavery a man called Sweet Melon became king, and Nakhon Wat progressed to the point of collapse. Then the Khmer people could not build or repair the stone castle again. Culture declined and compared to the contemporary kingdom after Nakhon Wat "Ayothaya and the neighborhood" and Ayothaya has great buildings with high art. Each neighborhood is almost no different from the forest people hiding in a bamboo fence without any buildings comparable to Nakhon Wat. For hundreds of years, the Khmer people have been weak and defeated.
Love your work! Please change the intro though....way too retro.
Ayodhya, Ayutthaya and Judaea sound similar
Thailand was look over of Cambodia 🇰🇭
Ayuttaya(Sayam), Lanna(Tai) and Sokhuthai(Tai) = Sayam/Siam=Thailand in 1949
According to Khmer history written on the stonewalls in the temple of Bayon, modern Thai people were Sayam(Tai)or Siem, or Siam of southern Chinese. They were refugees, warriors, and bandits, who migrated to Khmer(Cambodia) territory. Of course, Cambodia landmass of today is no where close to the time of the Khmer empire. Through the centuries, the Siem adopted Khmer language , religion, and cultures. They have became among the Khmer populations. By the way, Muay Thai was Khmer invention, not Thai. When the internal politcal strife within the Khmer Empire broke out. The Siem fought for independence of their own. Khmer empire was devided, the outcome was emergence of a new kingdom, Siem or Siam. Sometime in 1940's Siam became Thailand. Today's Thai populations will deny many parts of their history. Their history curriculum taught in school and institutions are very deviated from the true historical facts. This misleading have created much anonymousity toward the Khmer/Cambodia. This is why Thailand has been hostile toward Cambodia, considering Thai and Cambodian were one time one family.
Chamnap Cheng khmer were Mahayana Buddhist and Hindu not Theravada Buddhist which most Thai are so Thai only got the Hindu part from khmer. In Thai language and in Khmer language there’s Thai and most song that were sang in Khmer court in the 18th and 19th century were sang in Thai. We do except that Khmer and other culture have influence us otherwise we wouldn’t mention it in documentaries. It’s actually quite sad how Cambodia ended up like what it is now when you compare to the Khmer had archive in the past. After Angkor fell khmer art resembles Thai and not those of Angkor. Tall temple towers building traditions were not continued. After Ayutthaya fell thai still manage to take back lands and push the Burmese out but khmer couldn’t do the same and considering how great they were it’s just tragic.
The thieves will always make fake history.
veryyyyyyy Funny . Thai culture has dominated Khmer for 700 years. No cambodian
Ayutthaya reminds me of Overwatch.
Thai people DNA is closer to Vietnamese people, Both Veitnamese and Thais has Malayan DNA but NOT MAIN DNA
Pity you, stupid fucked!
@Da Phetdala why everything must be associated with Indian?
@@gruzit2622 If everything is in fact associated with Indian (actually Tamil), then everything must be associated with Indian.
Yes, Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese share similar DNA.
@Da Phetdala really great
which part of Indian South India or North India
Every kid in China knows that there were three tribes fought with each other in around 4600 year ago. One tribe fleet to south east Asia after the war. That tribe has to be got something to do with Thai, Laos, Cambodian and vietnamese.
I didn't know they traveld that far away. Their leader was Chiyou. Is that a familiar name sounds to Thai people? @chonburi11
Apparently it seems nowadays they dont, i had discussions with chinese ppl who are directly from china (who dont live outside of china and never did) and those discussions were not very good until i had literally explain everything etc
re your last minute or two of this - has me wondering if you're Canadian and referring to government-driven nationalism ... sounds a lot like it, if you weren't. Also the bit about shunning if you don't toe the line smacks of Canada in a strong way too.....
just like turks from central asia created empires in middle east and south asia,tai people created empires in southeast asia
Many Laotian and Khmer are salty and jealous over Thai 🙄 try to claim that everything are theirs. Sigh.
Da Phetdala You stupid and bullshit Laotian again, be in every video about Thai, real butthurt Laotian lol. Thai are mix race but we have our culture and Kingdom that not yours so no matter what you trying to say who we are things that are ours still be ours keep crying over our history 😜
Da Phetdala Knowledge or bullshit there are many thing that you don’t know about our history and many thing that you know only one side of story but you choose to believe what you want to believe anyway we live on present if you won’t leave us alone just keep crying over our history.
@Da Phetdala Stop barking, Laos Leprosy dog.You envy Thai people until you are not happy.
Da Phetdala Blah blah blah keep talking Laotain that the only thing you can do lolz
Da Phetdala Our history is longer than 1936. Bullshit Laotian keep dreaming you never be like us. Thailand has been rich in culture and history this is FACT even you want to change it but NEVER😘
Can you do a Vietnamese episode?
Boa Phan cau chuyen tien
THE ORIGIN PEOPLE OF THAILAND IS MALAY
LANGKASUKA THE MALAY EMPIRE NOW ARE KEDAH MALAYSIA WERE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
THAI PEOPLE FROM SOUTH CHINA ATTACK MALAY KINGDOM PATTANI AND CONQUER SIAM ( THAILAND) , CAMBODIA ALSO BELONGS TO MALAY KINGDOM CALL CHAMPA
SOUTH EAST ASIA ORIGIN PEOPLE ARE MALAY
WHEN THE IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA LIKE THAI, DAI VIET ATTACK THE MALAY THEY ALL RAN AWAY TO PENINSULA MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, INDONESIA, PHILIPPINES, BORNEO THEN THEY WERE CALLED MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
@@thaibadboy7219 iam come from Srilanka what do you think about Sri Lanka☸🙏
@@சிவம்கச்சாய்குமரன் While Buddhism in Thailand is disappearing, Sri Lanka sends monks to spread Buddhism to be strong.And also, while Buddhism in Sri Lanka is disappearing, Thailand sends monks to spread Buddhism to be strong.Thailand, thank you to Sri Lanka.
Looks like angklong musical instrument
You forgot the most important how Thai rebuilt the nation after losing Ayuthaya. Thonburi.
Temple khmer Empire
That music is originated from Khmer music boat racing ..!!
Khun Goons Khmer logic. ruclips.net/video/n8b-_m-_C1Y/видео.html
I don't understand your language!
Boat racing is a very famous sport in south india where Tamil kings lived is it popular in thailand
Yes, the name of that song in Thai is “Khamein Phai Rua” (Khmer boat rowing). Many classical Thai songs are from Cambodian music. I hope you don’t think that this means that Thai people are stealing it. Everyone who learns how to play this piece knows that it is Cambodian or at least that it is in a Cambodian style. It’s right there in the name, so no one is denying it!
@@dodos4225 oh really? Are you sure?Many Thai people still lost their minds in history, I hope they learn their true real identity and stop having a controversy with Khmer people and culture. Thai people have no respect toward Cambodia, Cambodia is your master, even your scholars accepted the truth that Thailand’s heritage is from Khmer, the number and language and land from Cambodia etc,.., without Cambodia there is no Thailand today. This Thai’s scholar is a very respectful people Unlike many Thai chose to accept false belief because Cambodia has become weak, you should learn real history not daydream ruclips.net/video/XimzhCdQgdg/видео.html&feature=share
Hay guy! Who has problems about Thailand?
@Da Phetdala Are you a leprosy dog? itch and howl all the time.
@Da Phetdala Are you a Lao person? I am a Thai person, I know more about Thailand than you. Don't pretend your knowledge from old texts.
@Da Phetdala Oh, you are a Tai. Why are you barking? What do you want?
Just because the Chinese are practicing (or mostly stuck) with the martial arts, doesn't mean it came from there. They are too fascinated by it and think that that's the only aspect of truth and living/well-being.
The reason yoga does not have martial arts as part of it ..is becoz the ancient Indians have their own ancient martial art systems like karipayattu and silambam to name a few as there are many more ancient martial art form .....only thing is it is not popularised outside of india whereas yoga has taken root in almost a 167 countries in the world...
There is a Chinese saying goes, Shaolin is the mother of all martial arts, but Shaolin monastery was found by an Indian loo
@@arnoldussineamico498 nope
It's not good to see a Hindu nation converted as Islamic. Of course Bali is a Hindu island we have only one nation for Hindus i.e., India. Let's protect our culture and way of living. And finally Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism.
@Da Phetdala he was born as a hindu, later when he grew up he started buddhism which just a spin off of Hinduism
@Da Phetdala buddhism is closely related to Hinduism that is what I am saying,both buddhism and Hinduism originated in india where Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world. Gautama buddha was a hindu before he started Hinduism. Check the history of buddhism
@Da Phetdala buddhism was based on cycle of life and rebirth, whereas cycle of life and death is a part of hindu philosophy or vedas
@@aryabhandkar9148
BUDDHA HIMSELF DENY TO BE HUNDU AND CHOOSES HIS OWN PATH, BUDDHA WAS AGAINST CASTE SYSTEM OF SANATAN DHARMA ,TEHRE IS NO RELIGION CALLED HINDUISM,CHECK YOUR VEDAS ,RAMAYAN OR MAHABHARATA, INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WAS CALLED BHARAT AND PEOPLE RELIGION WAS SANATAN DHARMA,
IDEA OF HINDUISM CAME AS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN 19TH CENTURY,THAT'S WHY WE FOUND LOT OF NEW RELIGION IN INDIA LIKE ARYA SAMAJ
BUDDHA MESSAGE SPREAD ALL OVER SOUTHEAST ASIA, NOW SANATAN DHARMA FOLLOWER TRYING TO PROVED BUDDHIST IS A PART OF HINDUISM, SHAME ON.
IF BUDDHA WOULD HAVE ALIVE TODAY HE WOULD SHUT MOUTH OF THOSE CLAIMER
@@Malodaiofficial santan dharam is not based on cast system it is beyond of your imagination. The idea of cast system is originate when akhand Bharat ( unite india) had to be colonised by lots of outsiders. In many ancient Vedas they teach us how to make our live beautiful ND live healthier ,to make our spirit in pease,they tells the manusya(hauman) about caste originally in ancient vedo shri Krishna prabhu teach that the quality of karam(karma).bhagwan shri krishan tell normal person to do your karam(good deeds) not accepting anything in returns just do, that will decided your caste, that which type of antar atma(holy spirit) you are. in many years before some stupid people gives a wrong information,but now imagined caste system who is built by some filthy people,not exists anymore,caste system not exist anymore, Bharat(india) has very rich diversity, lots of verities of people,skin colour, food, land ND whether ND many more things beyond r imagination, lots of languages we have, one thing tell you that we are very old civilization on earth when nobody exists in many decades before akand Bharat(unity India) only speak one bhsha (one language) that is Sanskrit. I think local language also exsist but Sanskrit is the main bhasha of ankand Bharat (unite India). Buddhism is our has no dought. now Sanatan dharm has four branches that is Hindu, buddh,jain,sikh that is birth by santhan dharam. in school,we teaches about our ancestors.how to start all of these ND roots, ND plz don't ask,say anything if u still have question on ur mind than plz go to ancient Vedas ND do some more study .i m not here for fight, my moto just gives information, people who have Misconception about santan dharam, I m not expert but I have enough information that I want to share with. I know because in our school life we studied a lot ND also we live our daily life like that, Santana dharam is not complicated at all just live ur life being a better manush (human)(just being ur self) , sanatan just gives us way if u have difficulty to live ur daily life, that's gives us booste ND way how to out of difficult situation.mahatama buddh also gives us way of living good life make us better manush (human). that all why we are fighting we r one.we love all ,we r family, we relate to each other. 🙏lol from Bharat (India)🇮🇳 to akhand Bharat (unite India). 🙏💓🇮🇳💓🇮🇳💓"vasuvdev kutumbhk "mean whole world r my family.
All southeast Asia countries pretty much have the same culture but Islam ruined it. For example in Indonesia & Malaysia
Yes, I regret the Malay and Indonesian Hindu-Wednesday culture. Look at the Balinese. They can preserve the Hindu culture. It is very charming
@@thaibadboy7219 Bali is pretty much the same culture as Thai. Your monument on the airport that has mountain & dragon surrounding it has the same story :)
@@devata87 Yes, that's a Hindu mythology. The gods and demons pull their naga on each side to stir the sea of milk to become magical water (Amrit).
@Da Phetdala both are Abrahamic religion that has the same root from the Middle East. But at least Christianity is not that destructive/hateful as Islam. Islam teaches hatred toward human beings!
@Da Phetdala wow just wow you just open my eyes about these abrahamic madness
Hello where you go Hansum man 😂
Thai is Thai !
Pl. Read Far East as East Asia.
Thai from Yunan
why did Siam changed the name to Thailand?
@Da Phetdala The word "tai" is shared with Mongolian and Lao since ancient times. Tai simply means "of" and it is used with a region or place name. E.G. TaiDam "of Black River", TaiDaeng "of Red River" etc.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Mountains
Altai "alt is gold and tai is of" Mountains meaning Mountains Of Gold because the rolling golden grassland resembles gold.
Yuan Dynasty that ruled China in the 13th century was Mongol. All these "Tai" kingdoms are 13th century. There is no such thing as Tai Yuan that came down to create Lanna. Yuan is Mongol.
Chakri Dynasty of Siam came up with this Thai identity. That is why they adopted the Khmer "R". Words such as love "huk" becomes "ruk". The word us=hao=rao and this is to hide the fact that 60 percent of Siam is ethnic Lao before they sacked LanXang and enslaved Lao people in Issan. The Thai indentity is to create a rift between Lao people of Siam and LanXang that got gathered up into Issan.
Da Phetdala obviously, you trust and and have just one source to claim fact of this region history by using manuscript of people from over 2,000 miles away. The manu script is secondary data from being told with their own understaning and misconception. In reality, people in country with long history collect their own historical facts better than others from more various sources they have and much better than the only chinese manuscript you claimed.
@@JamieRedknap And everyone in the region knows Siam fabrication of history for political purposes.
loog kaoneo Not everyone, it s just your presumption. Loser naturally wrote different story and implanted memory to descendants only what they wanna show how good they were and who were bad guys did to them while winner wrote to show how brave and capable they were. By the way, others dont only rely on wikipedia. 😊
@@JamieRedknap Wikipedia id just convenient. The Chakri Dynasty is Mon ethnic and they created "Thai." Good luck finding Thai in actual ancient manuscript. Whereas Lao existed for thousands of years.
If our ancestors and our king are Laos or khmers why we have Thailand(Siam) don’t we just be in Laos or Cambodia or have Laobodia country instead of Thailand. We might have same root as Lao or khmer or Thai came from whatever but we are not completely same as you. We create our kingdom(Sukhothai, Ayutthaya,Rattanakosin) it was build by our people our kingdom not yours. Now Thailand is for all Thais we mix with each other and we proud of our nation our culture and our history.
Da Phetdala We never call Lao people Siam. Our king call himself Siam so we did like him did. Our king never once said he is Mon even we have Mon race in Siam.
Da Phetdala We never call themselves Lao and We call themselves Siam(Sa-yam) to describe people that live in this river basin area and its been so long that we call ourselves like this we didn’t call after Khmer there is Khoi book write in Ayutthaya era call this area ‘สามปเทส’ (Sam-pa-thet) similar to ‘สยามประเทศ’ (Siam-pra-thet) that we call our self and European that sailing from west side of Siam also call us Siam I’m sure that they didn’t hear it from khmer since they didn’t met Cambodia and khmer call us Siem. Siam in Pali can mean yellow or Gold and prathet mean country so it’s golden country.
Da Phetdala Sukhothai region definitely wasn’t called Lao It in the central of Thailand. People in this area were not Lao but more like Mon root they are Siam not Lao but the north and north east of Thailand we use to call them Lao even Lanna and Lanxang have different but we just call them all Lao because of their accent that different from central people and they didn’t live in central area.
Da Phetdala Lol then why he can’t name. It’s common name in Thailand and His real name is Ram Khamhaeng not only Khamhaeng mean Ram who is brave cuz his original name is only ‘Ram’. To honor our King his full name that people call is Pho khun Ramkhanhaeng the great.
Da Phetdala Lol you Laotian bullshit again and again try to claim that King Ramkhamhaeng is Laotian. Funny. Like I said Khamhaeng wasn’t his name since birth and Khamhaeng is from kamhaeng mean strong and brave then what Khamhaeng mean in Lao I want to know not only haeng word cuz he didn’t name Haeng.
Who are thai siam ? They are malayu big eye
@Da Phetdala yeah and l am real thai people of Siam 😎😎😎
BIg eyes ?? Nope... thailand and any other country in southeast asia is asian MIXED, and most thais in my fam. do not have big eyes at all only very very few. The most look closer to south chinese (i come frome a south chinese-thai mixed family but even the ones with no south chinese dont look much different) maybe others but this does not apply to all thai people at all ,bcs of like i said, the fact that all of SEA is mixed with different asian ethnicitys now. As a thai who lives in thailand ppl should actually notice this...
@@mxd-1990asn yes south china ok thx
this city old khmer
Actually Mons but ok....
Green bean Ever heard of mon-khmer?