The purpose of this research is to explore the comparative study of Shan and standard Thai Morphology. The objectives of the study are classified into three parts as the following; (1) To study morpheme of Shan and standard Thai, (2) To study the word-formation of Shan and standard Thai and (3) To compare the morpheme and word-classes of Shan and standard Thai.

This research is the qualitative research. The population referred to this research, researcher selects Shan people who were born at Tachileik in Shan state consisting of 6 persons. Area of research is Shan people at Tachileik in Shan state union of Myanmar. Research method, the tool used in the research, the researcher makes interview and document research.

The main important parts in this study based on content analysis as documentary research by selecting primary sources from the books, academic books, Shan dictionary, Thai dictionary, library, online research and the research studied from informants' native speakers for 6 persons. The documentary Shan dialect data had been used for interviewing by way of qualitative methods linguistics.

The results of the research as:

The study of comparative Shan and standard Thai morphology. There were simple forms and compound forms and they can be classified based on Shan and standard Thai in two types, the morpheme refers to study of monomorphemic and polymorphemic forms such as composite forms, prefix-derived forms, suffix-derived forms, reduplicated forms and rhyming forms.

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