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Episode 2: An introduction to Thai
Languages: Standard form: Thai, Southern Thai; Non-standard form: Lanna, Isan, Pattani Malay and others
Direction: left-to-right
Creator: Ramkhamhaeng the Great
Thai script Language writing system
The Thai script is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai, and many other languages are spoken in Thailand. The Thai alphabet itself has 44 consonant symbols, 16 vowel symbols that combine into at least 32 vowel forms, and four tone diacritics to create characters mostly representing syllables. Wikipedia
Thai alphabet (ตัวอักษรไทย)
It is thought that the Thai alphabet was based on the Old Khmer alphabet, which dates from 611 AD. The oldest known inscriptions in Thai appeared in about 1292 AD. According to tradition, the Thai alphabet was created by King Ramkhamhaeng (พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช).
The Thai alphabet is used to write Thai, Sanskrit, Pali, and a number of minority languages spoken in Thailand.
There are 44 consonant symbols in the Thai alphabet which produce 21 initial consonant sounds when used at the beginning of a syllable and 6 final consonant sounds when used at the end of a syllable. There are 24 low class consonants (shown in green below), 9 middle-class consonants (yellow), and 11 high-class consonants (red); the classes are important for determining the tone which a syllable should be spoken with. Since many of the consonants produce the same sound, each consonant has an acrophonic word that is conventionally used to uniquely identify it.
Consonant (Alphabet)
There are 44 Thai consonants as follows:
ก ข ฃ ค ฅ ฆ
ง จ ฉ ช ซ ฌ
ญ ฎ ฏ ฐ ฑ ฒ
ณ ด ต ถ ท ธ
น บ ป ผ ฝ พ
ฟ ภ ม ย ร ล
ว ศ ษ ส ห ฬ อ ฮ
There are 21 Thai consonants: พยัญชนะไทยมี 21 เสียง
- ก ก
- ค ขฃคฅฆ
- ง ง
- จ จ
- ช ชฌฉ
- ซ ซสศษ
- ด ดฎ
- ต ตฏ
- ท ทธฑฒถฐ
- น นณ
- บ บ
- ป ป
- พ พภผ
- ฟ ฟฝ
- ม ม
- ย ยญ
- ร ร
- ล ลฬ
- ว ว
- ห หฮ
- อ อ
Consonant Spelling
- Mae Kok pronounces the spell g, which will use the consonant ก, ก, ก, ก as the spelling, such as birds, numbers, diseases, clouds.
- Mae Khod, pronounce the spell d, which will use the consonants, d., d., d., d., d., d., d., d., d., d.,
- Mae Kob pronounces the spell bor, which uses the consonant bor, pp, ph as a spell, such as sword, sin, picture, graph, greedy.
- Mae Kan pronounces the spelling of na, which will use the consonant na na na as a spelling, such as arms, multiply, merit, food, mechanical, whale.
- Mae Kong pronounces the spelling of d, which will use the consonant d as a spelling, such as true, running, monkey, lion, ping, aiming, ordering.
- Mae Kam is pronounced spelled m, which uses the consonant m as a spelling, such as milk, smell, wind, carpet, somchim.
- Mae Koey pronounces the spelling of Y, which will use the consonant Y as a spelling, such as Grandma, Ney, Khee, talk.
- Mae Kew pronounces the spell wo, which uses the consonant wo as a spell, such as acne, hungry, cow.
