For the next several posts, I will be going over how to identify the tone of a word based on the spelling of the word. Keep in mind the rules to this is a bit complicated so don\u2019t get discouraged if you don\u2019t get it the first time.<\/p>\n
There are 5 different features of a word that you must look at to determine the tone of the word.<\/p>\n
1.<\/strong> Tone marks Before we get started on going over the consonant classes, let\u2019s start off with the easy stuff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. For the tone marks, I have gone over them already two years ago:<\/strong> <\/p>\n 2. Dead and Live ending consonants<\/strong> The list of dead consonants is very long: \u0e04, \u0e05, \u0e06, \u0e01, \u0e02, \u0e03, \u0e1e, \u0e1f, \u0e20, \u0e1a, \u0e1b, \u0e0a, \u0e0c, \u0e11, \u0e12, \u0e17, \u0e18, \u0e08, \u0e0e, \u0e0f, \u0e14, \u0e15, \u0e10, \u0e16, \u0e28, \u0e29, \u0e2a<\/p>\n But don\u2019t panic! To be a dead consonant, it must make one of these six ending sounds: k, p, f, b, t, d<\/p>\n Just memorize those six letters and you\u2019ll be fine. Remember, some letters when located at the end of a syllable will make a different sound then when at the beginning. All other letters are live consonants.<\/p>\n Whether the syllable has a live or dead consonant ending will influence the tone of the word.<\/p>\n \u0e04\u0e33\u0e15\u0e32\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e33\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19 <\/p>\n 3. Consonant Class<\/strong> A note on consonant clusters . . . the class of a consonant cluster is that of the first consonant. For example: For the next several posts, I will be going over how to identify the tone of a word based on the spelling of the word.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10208],"tags":[254606,254608,4761,10502,33098,10177,254607,254611,7278],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","tag-class","tag-cluster","tag-consonant","tag-dead","tag-live","tag-thai","tag-tone","tag-tone-mark","tag-vowel"],"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
\n2.<\/strong> Dead\/live ending consonants
\n3.<\/strong> Consonant class
\n4.<\/strong> Previous syllable
\n5.<\/strong> Vowel length<\/p>\n
\nTone Marks p1<\/a>
\nTone Marks p2<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIn each syllable consisting of more than one consonant, look at the last consonant. Is it a live consonant or a dead consonant?<\/p>\n
\nkum1 dtaii1
\ndead consonant<\/p>\n
\nkum1 bpen1
\nlive consonant<\/p>\n
\nThai letters are divided into three classes, of which I will go over in the next few posts.<\/p>\n
\n\u0e2a\u0e23\u0e49\u0e32\u0e07 \u2013 \u0e2a\u0e23, pronounced as \u2018s\u2019, is high class
\n\u0e17\u0e23\u0e07 \u2013 \u0e17\u0e23, pronounced as \u2018s\u2019, is mid class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"