Thai writes whole sentences without a single space.

Thai script has 44 consonant symbols with vowels attached as marks, making it an abugida. There are no spaces between words; spaces separate sentences or clauses, much like our full stops and commas. Readers work out where a word ends themselves, which is why word-splitting software needs its own dictionaries.

Useful: Paste Thai into a translation tool and a misplaced space can flip the meaning.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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