Do Thai people use Chinese characters (漢字)?
The Thai people use the Thai script, which is derived from Indian scripts. I found this for you: The Thai script is a syllabic alphabet based on the Brahmi script adapted to write the Thai or Siamese language. Its invention is attributed to King Ramkhamhaeng, who reigned from 1275 to 1317. It is also possible that the Khmer alphabet might have had an influence on the Thai alphabet. The oldest Thai inscription dates from 1283. The Thai script has some very complex rules on how letters are pronounced. Often multiple letters represent the same sound. This is partially due to the fact that many sounds found in Indian languages did not exist in the Thai language, so letters representing similar sounds in Indian languages came to represent the same sound in Thai, and also due to phonological changes in the Thai language in the past hundreds of years that have merged different sounds into the a single sound. On the other hand, the sounds of many Thai letters differ depending on whether the le
