Silent vowels : ิ, ุ after words

By Jang

Silent Vowels

The vowels ิ, ุ after words

There are some words which are not pronounce the vowels  ิ, ุ at the final consonant but still keep pronunciation of final consonant

ญาติ  /yâat/                               ชาติ    /châat/       

ธาตุ    /tâat/                              ประวัติ /bprà-wàt/

เหตุการณ์  /hèt-gaan/                 ภูมิใจ  /puum-jai/

ภาคภูมิ /pâak-puum/                   สมบัติ /sǒm-bàt/

ปฏิวัติ  /bpà-dtì-wát/              อนุมัติ /à-nú-mát/

Anyway, in some case, there are some words can pronounce the vowels ิ, ุ, you need to check from dictionary again.

Hope you can read, write and understand Thai language more ^_^ 

Kruu Jang

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Thai Vowels - Why so many?? 32 vowels!??

By Jang

Thai language has 32 vowels which are generally categorized into three groups as follows:

This is step 2 of learning Thai, the second thing that you have to learn apart from the Thai consonants or Thai alphabet is Thai vowels.

Short vowels consist of –ะ –ิ –ึ –ุ เ–ะ แ–ะ โ–ะ เ–าะ –ัวะ เ–ียะ

เ–ือะ เ–อะ

Long vowels consist of –า –ี –ือ –ู เ– แ– โ–     –อ –ัว

เ–ีย เ–ือ เ–อ

Irregular vowels consist of –ำ ใ– ไ– เ–า ฤ ฤๅ (ฦ ฦๅ *no longer used)

As for the Irregular vowels, most of them are transferred to ‘Long vowels’ group except ฤ .  And the reason we call them ‘Irregular vowels’ is that they have the sounds of consonants blended in themselves as follows:

–ำ = –ะ with ม (m-sound)

ไ– = –ะ with ย (y-sound)

ใ– = –ะ with ย (y-sound)

เ–า = –ะ with ว (w-sound)

ฤๅ= รือ (ร with –ือ)

ฤ = รึ (ร with –ึ )

The main reason we have to categorize Thai vowels into 2 groups based on sounds; short sound and long sound, is that the vowels also play a major role in tones, pronunciation and grammar. And the two groups of vowels will generate the Thai syllables or Thai words to Dead Syllables and Live Syllables. We spend a longtime practising this with our students at our Thai Language School - but don’t be put off this comes over time …even Thai nationals can get this wrong!

What are the Dead syllables and Live Syllables? To be continued…

Kru Mulan (Thai Language Teacher)

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