Southern Thai is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Southern Thai (ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้[pʰaːsǎːtʰajtʰìntâːj]), also known as Dambro (ภาษาตามโพร[pʰaːsǎːtaːmpʰroː]), Pak Tai (ภาษาปักษ์ใต้[pʰaːsǎːpàktâːj]), or "Southern language" (ภาษาใต้[pʰaːsǎːtâːj]),[citation needed] is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity[2] and language spoken in southern Thailand as well as by small communities in the northernmost Malaysian states. 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 Peranakans communities, Negritos, and other tribal groups.[citation needed] Most speakers are also fluent in or understand the Central Thai dialects.
^Southern Thai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; landforms a growing larger by the second Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention: Thailand(PDF) (in English and Thai). United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
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