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Thai does not have upper case letters.
It does have a character that essentially means duplicate the previous word which is a common way to pluralize or emphasize:
Child = เด็ก “dèk”
Children = เด็กเด็ก or เด็กๆ “dèkdèk”
Pretty = งาม “ngaam”
Pretty! = งามงาม or งามๆ “ngaamngaam”
interesting! I love learning about the different kinds of logic languages use. visually, Thai is one of my favorite languages (and Thailand has my favorite cuisine, too)!
While I don't speak Chinese, I saw some comment mentioning that the protagonist of the apothecary diaries Maomao's name means literally "cat cat". She is latter called Xiaomao meaning something like little cat. I wonder if the first one had some similar roots to the way it is used in Thai meaning big cat 😺