2506: Thai Months Oct 22, 2021

In modern Thai, months with 30 days end in '-ayon' and months with 31 end in '-akhom'; February (Kumphaphan) ends in '-phan'. Originally in Thai, the months were just numbered, but later these were Thai-modified Sanskrit named introduced by prince Devawongse Varoprakar based on the Zodiac signs, with both endings mentioned above meaning 'arrival'. This makes something like October 'tulakhom' from 'tulā' (balance) meaning 'the arrival of balance' from 'Libra', or April as 'Mesayan' from 'mesa' (ram) from Aries and so on. The different ending for February means 'bound', and the added day of a leap-year is called 'Athikasuratin' meaning 'additional'.

1493: Thai Numerals Jan 13, 2019

Thai, like many other East Asian languages has its own writing system, but unlike many other writing systems all over the world that do not have distinct symbols for numerals, the Thai system does. The numerals follow a base-ten system with the Arabic numerals, but this should not be surprising since they both followed from the same Hindu origins. However, while not represented in the numeration, the name for the number 1, nèung, changes to become èt when it is at the end of other numbers, like 11, or sìp èt (literally: ten-one).

0: ๐
1:๑
2:๒
3: ๓
4: ๔
5: ๕
6: ๖
7: ๗
8: ๘
9: ๙