Linguistics!

[Kudis]

The great thread of linguistics, got questions about a language, or just want to share your linguisticacles (if thats now a word, I take the credits of being the maker of it) knowledge.

My absolute interest at the moment lies in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos.
Aka Khmer languages.

I find it interesting that the Thais language, though the written language is also hailing from brahmi as the others, share no similarity in spoken language. At first i thought that since they all came from khmer waaay back in time, they'd sound quite close. But I was wrong, I first thoguht that they'd be like swedish and norwegian, danish icelandic, f?r?yar. Due to our common ancestral language, (swedish = east norse, norway = west norse). We can understand each other to a great extent whereas Thai's and Cambodians cannot. They sound awfully similar when both talking and writing. The friends I have that are from the respective countries cannot understand more than a few words, loan words from old khmer (the thais).

This is all info gathered from people I have spoken to about this matter. Does anyone else got any more input?

Feel free to start new topics on the matter.