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Mishari Muqbil (mishari@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 08:30:15 UTC Mishari Muqbil

Street signs in Yala are in 4 languages, Thai English, Jawi, and Chinese
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 08:30:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @mishari I didn't know Chinese was big in parts of Thailand too. TIL, thank you.
  
  Does Chinese signage only happen in the parts close to Malaysia, or does it go further north too?
  
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- Mishari Muqbil (mishari@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 18:50:44 UTC Mishari Muqbil
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  @clacke there's a large community here and a lot of ethnic Chinese tourists from Malaysia. I haven't really noticed signage further north, perhaps it exists in Khon Kaen? @thep
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 19:51:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @thep @mishari Does the "pat" in the Thai name literally mean North? Maybe the Chinese name follows its own convention rather than being a direct transliteration?
  
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- thep@mastodon.xyz's status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 19:51:52 UTC thep
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  @mishari The Chinese name of Pattani is in strange order. It should be 北大年, to be pronounced "ปักตานี้" in Teochew, and probably also Hokkien.
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 01:34:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @mishari @thep Ok, so either the sign is wrong or maybe the Chinese-speaking community in the area have their own folk etymology for the name and have switched things around.
  
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- Mishari Muqbil (mishari@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 01:34:17 UTC Mishari Muqbil
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  @clacke @thep Patani is Malay there's a short description of the origin of the name here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patani
  "The town became Patani, which is believed to be named either after "this beach" where the mouse-deer had disappeared, or the old man as Pak Tani meaning "Father Tani"."
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    Patani Darussalam (Bahasa Malayu Arabic : الفطنية دار السلام, also sometimes Patani Raya or Patani Besar, "Greater Patani"; Thai: ปาตานี) is a historical region in the northern part of the Malay peninsula. It includes the southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala (Jala), Narathiwat (Menara), and parts of Songkhla (Singgora). Its capital was the town of Patani. The Patani region has historical affinities with the Singgora (Songkhla), Ligor (Nakhon Si Thammarat), Lingga (near Surat Thani) and Kelantan sultanates dating back to the time when the Patani Kingdom was a semi-independent Malay sultanate paying tribute to the Siamese kingdoms of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. After Ayutthaya fell to the Burmese in 1767, the Sultanate of Patani gained full independence, but under King Rama I, it again came under Siam's control. In recent years a secessionist movement has sought the establishment of a Malay Islamic state, Patani Darussalam, encompassing the three southern Thai provinces. This campaign...