Top Document: soc.culture.thai Language FAQ Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: L.2) Learning Thai abroad See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The transcription scheme was put together by Khun Wirote Aroonmanakun (waroonma@guvax.georgetown.edu) with great input from many SCT folks, notably a consonant table from Khun Rob Reed (rreed@mtwire.es.com) and a vowel table from Khun Parames Laosinchai (CHLBB@CUNYVM.BITNET). 44 CONSONANTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ k kh kh kh kh kh ng j ch ch s ch y d t th th th n d t th th th n b p ph f ph f ph m y r l w s s s h l ? h Final Sounds ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Obstruent Endings: k or g, t or d, p or b Soronant Endings: ng n m y w Tone Markers ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - for normal tone / 0 ' for low tone / 1 " for falling tone / 2 ^ for high tone / 3 + for rising tone / 4 Basic.Vowels ~~~~~~~~~~~~ a as in ka' (estimate) aa as in kaa- (crow) i as in ti' (blame) ii as in tii- (hit) U as in ?U' (shit) UU as in mUU- (hand) u as in du' (scold) uu as in duu- (look) e as in te' (kick) ee as in thee- (pour) A as in lA^ (and) AA as in lAA- (look) o as in to^ (table) oo as in to- (big) O as in kO" (island) OO as in rOO- (wait) E as in lE^ (dirty) EE as in rEE- (Belch) Compound Vowels ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ua as in yua^ (angry) uaa as in tuaa- (body) ia as in pria^ (tight) iaa as in miaa- (wife) Ua (no example) Uaa as in rUaa- (ship) Excess Vowels (sa'ra'kEEn-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ay or ai as in nay- or nai- (in) aw or au as in daw- or dau- (guess) [Editor's note: Two transliteration schemes have been proposed. Both proposals are available for anonymous FTP at the URL: ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/soc.culture.thai/SCTinfo/langauge/ Post your comments back to soc.culture.thai.] User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.thai Language FAQ Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: L.2) Learning Thai abroad Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sct-faq@nucleus.nectec.or.th
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