• The Influence of Pali and Sanskrit on Thai Language – A Historical Study

Terdsak Panyajirathiwat

Abstract: Since the history of Thailand around the third Buddhist century When Buddhism was propagated into Thailand until Buddhism prospered because the kings and rulers of each generation respected and nurtured Buddhism. Studies have shown that monks have made great contributions to the education of the nation for the first time. As a result, most of the people who received education from religious institutions in the past the son will come from a rural village where the family has low socioeconomic status. Therefore relying on the hope that the temple in the village is the only way of education that can be found for their children Buddhist monks have helped to alleviate the problem of inequality in educational opportunities that the entire Thai society has faced since the beginning. It was found that Buddhism played an important role in the study of Thai and Thai language. We also found that Thai language originated from Pali and Sanskrit. Combined with the import used in the first Thai language.