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23-586: Chuping is a suburb of Kangar and a small town in Perlis , Malaysia . It is located to the northeast of Kangar , the state capital. The town has 22,000 hectares of plantations, which consist of rubber estates and the largest sugar cane plantation in Malaysia. Chuping's name may be taken from a limestone hill in the area called Bukit Chuping. There are many limestone hills in the area, and several caves containing bats. The guano used to be collected for use as

46-580: A "witness" to many business deals was called Pohon Kangar . Every trader and merchant who came and went to this place began calling it the Pohon Kangar Port, in honour of the tree. The majority of Kangar's population speaks Perlis Malay which is a sub-dialect of Kedah Malay but also has its own unique features compared to those of neighbouring Kedah. The Han Chinese , the second largest community in Kangar are primarily Hokkien speaking, with

69-611: A contracted form of Thai expressions and with some amount of loan words from Malay ). The Thai language was introduced with Siamese incursions into the Malay Peninsula possibly starting as early as the Sukhothai Kingdom . During this and successive kingdoms, the area in which Southern Thai is spoken was a frontier zone between Thai polities and the Malay Sultanates. Malay vocabulary has been absorbed into

92-603: A culture that shares Islam , which is practiced by some speakers of Southern Thai. Malay kingdoms ruled much of the Malay Peninsula , such as the Pattani Kingdom and Tambralinga , but most of the area, at one time or another, was under the rule of Srivijaya . The population of the Malay Peninsula was heavily influenced by the culture of India that was transmitted through missionaries or indirectly through traders. Numerous Buddhist and Hindu shrines attest to

115-632: A fertiliser, for crops such as rice, as it contains nitrates and iron(III) phosphate . The highest temperature in the country was recorded in Chuping on April 9, 1998, at 40.1 °C (104.2 °F). Chuping receives just above 2,000 mm (79 in) of rainfall annually and with that cumulative of rainfall if compares with other places in Malaysia, Chuping is categorised as one of the driest area in Malaysia. The dry season occurs during December until February but still monthly can reach up more than 100 mm (3.9 in) of rainfall. March till November

138-479: A reduced and rapid manner, making comprehension by speakers of other varieties difficult. Also, as Southern Thai uses up to seven tones in certain provinces, the tonal distribution is different from other regional varieties of Thai. Additionally, Southern Thai speakers almost always preserve ร as /r/ in contrast to Northern Thai , the Lao-based Isan language , and informal registers of Central Thai where it

161-428: A substantially higher number of tonal allophones . This is true for dialects north of approximately 10° N and south of 7° N latitude , as well as urban sociolects throughout Southern Thailand. In between, there are dialects with six- and seven-tone systems. The dialect of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province (approximately centered on 8° N latitude), for example, has seven phonemic tones. In Southern Thai, each syllable in

184-532: A word is considered separate from the others and so combinations of consonants from adjacent syllables are never recognised as clusters. Southern Thai has phonotactical constraints that define the permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters and vowel sequences. The original Thai vocabulary introduces only 11 combined consonantal patterns: All plosive sounds (besides the glottal stop /ʔ/) are unreleased . Hence, final /p/ , /t/ , and /k/ sounds are pronounced as [p̚] , [t̚] , and [k̚] respectively. Of

207-428: Is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand , as well as by small communities in the northernmost states of Malaysia . It is spoken by roughly five million people and as a second language by the 1.5 million speakers of Pattani and other ethnic groups such as the local Peranakan communities, Negritos and other tribal groups. Most speakers are also fluent in or understand

230-623: Is a wet season. Chuping is accessible from a trunk road bound for Kangar and Kodiang. The trunk road is situated after the Jitra Selatan exit of the North–South Expressway . Buses that travel along the Kuala Perlis –Kangar route pass through this town. This Perlis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kangar Kangar ( Kedah Malay : Kangaq ; Jawi : كڠار ‎)

253-689: Is the primary language of ethnic Thais and of the ethnicall- Malay people on both sides of the Thai-Malaysian border in Satun and Songkhla provinces. Although numerous regional variations exist, and there is no standard, the language is most distinct near the Malaysian border. All varieties, however, remain mutually intelligible. For economic reasons, many speakers of Southern Thai have migrated to Bangkok and other Thai cities. Some have also emigrated to Malaysia, which offers economic opportunity but also

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276-518: Is the state capital and the largest town in Perlis , Malaysia. It has a population of 48,898 and an area of 2,619.4 ha. It is located next to the Thailand border, in the northernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia . It is situated by the Perlis River . The town is also a gathering centre for the paddy rice production of the surrounding district. Its municipal government is unified with that of

299-557: The Cambodia border. Phonyarit (2018) recognizes the following nine main dialects of Southern Thai, based on tone split and merger patterns. In Thailand, speakers of Southern Thai can be found in a contiguous region beginning as far north as southern part of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and extending southward to the border with Malaysia . Smaller numbers of speakers reside in the Malaysian border states, especially Kedah , Kelantan , Penang , Perlis , and Perak . In those areas, it

322-920: The Central Thai dialects . Southern Thai is classified as one of the Chiang Saen languages, the others being Thai , Northern Thai and numerous smaller languages. They, together with the Northwestern Tai and the Lao-Phutai languages, form the Southwestern branch of the Tai languages . The Tai languages are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family , which encompasses a large number of indigenous languages that are spoken in an arc from Hainan and Guangxi south through Laos and northern Vietnam to

345-464: The 14th Sultan of Kedah , Sultan Muhyiddin Mansor Shah . Kangar was then a land port or pengkalan where boats and tongkangs anchor at the confluence of Perlis River, which runs through Kangar town to Kuala Perlis . The name Kangar was derived from a type of tree. It was here at the port that trading was done, under a big tree that gave shade and respite to the traders. This tree that became

368-444: The 1930s. Other major landmarks are: 6°26′N 100°12′E  /  6.433°N 100.200°E  / 6.433; 100.200 Southern Thai language Southern Thai ( ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tʰaj tʰìn tâːj] ), also known as Dambro ( ภาษาตามโพร [pʰaːsǎː taːm pʰroː] ), Pak Tai ( ภาษาปักษ์ใต้ [pʰaːsǎː pàk tâːj] ), or "Southern language" ( ภาษาใต้ [pʰaːsǎː tâːj] ),

391-485: The consonant letters, excluding the disused ฃ and ฅ, six (ฉ ผ ฝ ห อ ฮ) cannot be used as a final, and the other 36 are grouped as follows: ฒ ,ด, ต, ถ, ท, ธ, ศ, ษ, ส The vowels of Southern Thai are similar to those of Central Thai and, from front to back and close to open, are given in the following table. The top entry in every cell is the symbol from the International Phonetic Alphabet ,

414-597: The diffusion of Indian culture. The power vacuum left by the collapse of Srivijaya was filled by the growth of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom , which subsequently became a vassal of the Sukhothai Kingdom . The area has been a frontier between the northern Tai peoples and the southern ethnic Malays as well as between Buddhism and Islam . The majority of speakers using Southern Thai varieties display five phonemic tones ( tonemes ) in citation monosyllables although effects of sandhi can result in

437-626: The language serving as the lingua franca of the city's Chinese population. In addition, significant knowledge of Mandarin and English is also present amongst them. Other languages spoken in Kangar includes Tamil , Telugu , Malayali as well as Punjabi and Hindi among the Kangar Indian population and Southern Thai by the Kedah-Siamese community. Downtown Kangar is a mixture of old and new shophouses, and has an elegant colonial State Secretariat Building and clocktower from

460-604: The lexicon, as a considerable number of Malay speakers lived in or near Patani polity and interacted with the Thai speakers through trade; and the Malay language was formerly considered to be a lingua franca of the southern part of the Malay peninsula. Southern Thai is mainly a spoken language although the Thai alphabet is often used when it is written in informal situations. The words used that are etymologically Thai are often spoken in

483-413: The major regional languages of Thailand, Southern Thai is most similar in lexicon and grammar to Central Thai, the varieties are sufficiently different that mutual intelligibility between the two can be problematic. Southern Thai presents a diglossic situation wherein registers range from the most formal (Standard Central Thai spoken with Southern Thai tones and accent) to the common vernacular (usually

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506-421: The neighbouring communities of Arau and Kaki Bukit . The centre of Kangar is Sena Province. The town is the smallest state capital in Malaysia and its inhabitants are mostly farmers and civil servants. Its industries include cement, saw milling, rubber, paper, and processing of sugar and prawns. Kangar existed from about 350 years ago, that is since 1653 when Kota Sena was built as the administrative centre for

529-851: The second entry gives the spelling in the Thai alphabet , where a dash (–) indicates the position of the initial consonant after which the vowel is pronounced. A second dash indicates that a final consonant must follow. The vowels each exist in long-short pairs : these are distinct phonemes forming unrelated words in Southern Thai, but usually transliterated the same: เขา /khaw/ means "he/she", while ขาว /khaːw/ means "white". The long-short pairs are as follows: The basic vowels can be combined into diphthongs . For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are sometimes classified as long: Additionally, there are three triphthongs . For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are sometimes classified as long: Although of

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