{"id":1361,"date":"2012-09-25T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2012-09-25T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:57:10","slug":"the-invisible-vowel-rule-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/the-invisible-vowel-rule-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Vowel Rule, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first part of this series, I talked about how to determine the vowel when it wasn\u2019t visible. In the second part, I talked about how vowels can change its appearance. In this third part, I will show several more vowels that change it\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n

1) <\/strong>\u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is pronounced as a long \u2018er\u2019 sound. For example:<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d ter<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e2d ber<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e01\u0e2d ger<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So what if you wanted two consonants as one syllable using the long vowel \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d? If you put both inside the vowel, you\u2019d get this (not real words):<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e18\u0e14\u0e2d teh-daw<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e1e\u0e2d beh-paw<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e01\u0e23\u0e2d geh-raw<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As you can see, that isn\u2019t working. It created a long \u2018ehh\u2019 sound and added another long \u2018aw\u2019 sound at the end.<\/p>\n

Instead, you must remove the \u0e2d and add an \u0e2d\u0e34. For example:<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e18\u0e34\u0e14 terd = \u0e18 + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e14<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e1e berp = \u0e1a + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e1e<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e01\u0e34\u0e23 gern = \u0e01 + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e23<\/p>\n

(not real words)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2) \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e34\u0e2d<\/p>\n

In #1 above, there were two consonants and one \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d vowel. What if there were three consonants using the \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d vowel?<\/p>\n

For example, \u0e40\u0e08\u0e23\u0e34\u0e0d.<\/p>\n

Is it pronounced \u0e40\u0e08 + \u0e23\u0e34\u0e0d (jeh rin)? No!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The rule is that the \u0e40 always comes at the front of any word, even if it\u2019s only used for the second syllable. It would actually be pronounced as:<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e08\u0e23\u0e34\u0e0d ja-rern = \u0e08\u0e30 + \u0e23 + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e0d<\/p>\n

using rule #2 from part 1 for the \u0e08.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e09\u0e25\u0e34\u0e21 cha-lerm = \u0e09\u0e30 + \u0e25 + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e21<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But don\u2019t get too carried away with it. This next example is tricky:<\/p>\n

\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e23\u0e34\u0e21 = \u0e2a + \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e2d + \u0e21<\/p>\n

Unlike the previous above to examples, \u0e40\u0e2a\u0e23\u0e34\u0e21 is using a consonant cluster, \u0e2a\u0e23. \u0e2a\u0e23 is pronounced as a single \u0e2a.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the first part of this series, I talked about how to determine the vowel when it wasn\u2019t visible. In the second part, I talked about how vowels can change its appearance. In this third part, I will show several more vowels that change it\u2019s appearance.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10208,10341],"tags":[254573,254575,254576,11950,10177],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","category-intermediate","tag-invisible-vowel-rule","tag-lod","tag-ruub","tag-sara","tag-thai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t