title: Siamese
text: # Siamese
  
  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.
  