Category:Northern Thai terms by usage

Northern Thai terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Northern Thai terms with archaic senses: Northern Thai terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Northern Thai colloquialisms: Northern Thai terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Northern Thai formal terms: Northern Thai terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Northern Thai nonstandard terms: Northern Thai terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Northern Thai slang: Northern Thai colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Northern Thai vulgarities: Northern Thai terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.