Siamese describes something of or related to Siam (now called Thailand), or more specifically the region of Central Thailand, usually including Southern Thailand.
Siamese may refer to:
Animals
- Siamese cat, a domestic cat breed
- Siamese crocodile, a species of crocodile
- Siamese mud carp, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
- Siamese algae eater, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
- Siamese fighting fish, a species of fish from genus Betta
- Siamese fireback, Lophura diardi, the national bird of Thailand
- Siamese tigerfish, a species of fish from genus Datnioides, tiger perch
Other uses
- Conjoined twins or Siamese twins, identical twins joined in utero
- Chang and Eng Bunker, The "Siamese Twins", Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers from whom the term derives
- Siamese (band), formerly Siamese Fighting Fish, Danish rock and metal band
- Siamese connection or a splitter in fire protection engineering
- Siamese method, a mathematical method described by Simon de la Loubère
- Sukhothai language, a kind of Thai topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they gradually diverged into regional variants, which subsequently developed into the modern Central Thai and Southern Thai.
- Central Thai language or Siamese language, the sole official language of Thailand and first language of most people in Central Thailand and include Thai Chinese in Southern Thailand.
- Southern Thai language, or Southern Siamese language, or Tambralinga language, language of Southern Thailand first language of most people in Southern Thailand
- Thai people, Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central Thailand and Southern Thailand
- Khorat Thai, ethnic groups in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
- Malaysian Siamese, ethnic groups in Northern Peninsular Malaysia.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Siamese
- Siamese twins (disambiguation)
- Siam (disambiguation)
- Thai (disambiguation)
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