Thai alphabet

Thai is the official language of Thailand, the country is called the land of golden pagoda, tourist paradise, paradise of shopping, home of friendly smiles . Thai is a difficult language to learn. by the combination of tonality, complex spelling rules. However, if you love and persevere, anyone can use this language.

If you love Thailand and want to learn Thai, the first thing you need to know and memorize is the Thai alphabet.

The Thai alphabet consists of 44 consonants, 9 vowels written in 14 different ways, 4 diacritics, unmarked bars and 28 vowel marks.

Consonant table of Thai language

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In Thai, 44 consonants are divided into 28 basic consonants and 16 consonant consonants. Of the 44 consonants there are no more consonants Thai alphabet Picture 2 and Thai alphabet Picture 3 .

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Vowels in Thai

Thai has 32 vowel sounds that make up 9 long vowel sounds (with 2 or more characters), 9 short vowel sounds, 3 chords. The dual vowels can be on either side of the consonant.

In Thai, vowels do not stand at the beginning of a sentence but can only stand above, below, before and after consonants.

Dual vowel tables

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Table 9 short vowels and 9 long vowel sounds

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The table of vowels means similarities

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Three chords of vowels

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