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Introduction
The Thai consonants are listed below.
Constants Group By Sound
The first table simply gives you an overview of the possible
consonant sounds. While this is important there are other ways to view the
data.
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Thai
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Pronunciation
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Transliteration
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Comment
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บ
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B
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B
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Note the short upwards line compared to
ป
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ผ, พ, ภ
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P
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P
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Note the long upwards line in ผ, พ
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ป
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PB
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pb
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Note the long upwards line compared to
บ
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ด, ฎ
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D
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dt
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Note the loop goes up ด.
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ท, ฑ, ธ, ฒ, ถ, ฐ
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T
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T
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ต, ฏ
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DT
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dt
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Note the loop goes up ต.
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ก
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G
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G
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Hard ‘G’
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ค, ข, ฃ, ฅ, ฆ
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K
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K
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Note the loop goes down ค and ฅ.
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จ
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J
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J
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ฉ, ช, ฌ
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CH
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ch
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ฝ, ฟ
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F
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f
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Note the long upwards line.
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ห, ฮ
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H
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h
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ล, ฦ, ฬ
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L
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l
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ร, ฤ
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R
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r
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rolled (tongue moves upwards from bottom of mouth)
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ม
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M
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m
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น, ณ
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N
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n
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ง
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NG
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ng
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Tongue moves down and hits the bottom of mouth
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ส, ซ, ศ, ษ,
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S
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s
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Notice they all have a line through them (helps remembering)
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ว
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W
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w
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ย, ญ
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Y
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y
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อ
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-
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Dummy consonant that is not pronounced. It is used if a words starts
with a vowel sound
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