As mentioned in the previous post, when considering the spelling of a word in Thai, the consonant class influences the tone of the word. There are three consonant classes: low, mid, and high.<\/p>\n
We will start with the High class consonants (HCC) first because I believe it is the easiest of the three.<\/p>\n
The high class consonants are:<\/p>\n
\u0e02, \u0e09, \u0e10, \u0e16, \u0e1c, \u0e1d, \u0e28, \u0e29, \u0e2a, \u0e2b<\/strong><\/p>\n You will need to memorize this list. The HCC are the only consonants that can create a rising tone without the use of the \u0e2d\u0e4b tone mark. The HCC cannot be used to create a mid-tone. If you hear a rising tone, chances are it uses an HCC. In the following rules I won\u2019t go over every letter, but the rules apply to any of the HCC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. If a HCC is with a live (or no) ending consonant, and has no tone mark and no dead consonant, the tone is rising<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e02\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e31\u0e19<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e2a\u0e32\u0e21<\/p>\n \u0e28\u0e32\u0e25\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e1d\u0e19<\/p>\n \u0e16\u0e36\u0e07<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. If a HCC has a \u0e2d\u0e49 tone mark, and no dead consonant, the tone is falling<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e02\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e31\u0e49\u0e19<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e49\u0e32\u0e21<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. If a HCC is with a \u0e2d\u0e48 tone mark, and\/or has a dead ending consonant, the tone is low<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e31\u0e14<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e32\u0e14<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e35\u0e1a<\/p>\n \u0e09\u0e34\u0e48\u0e07<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e48\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e48\u0e32\u0e27<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. When the first syllable is an alone HCC without a visible vowel (and is not a consonant cluster), it becomes a low <\/em>tone while the second consonant becomes an HCC. The \u0e2b is always silent if there is no vowel with it \u2013 it solely exists to modify the tone of the word.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e2a\u0e22\u0e32\u0e21 sa2yaam5<\/p>\n \u0e2a\u0e19\u0e32\u0e21 sa2naam5<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e19\u0e21 ka2nom5<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e25\u0e32\u0e22 laai5<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32 naa3<\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e2b\u0e23\u0e2d law5<\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e2b\u0e07\u0e32 ngao5<\/p>\n \u0e43\u0e2b\u0e0d\u0e48 yai2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As mentioned in the previous post, when considering the spelling of a word in Thai, the consonant class influences the tone of the word. There are three consonant classes: low, mid, and high. We will start with the High class consonants (HCC) first because I believe it is the easiest of the three.<\/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":[4761,254612,10177,254607],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","tag-consonant","tag-high-class","tag-thai","tag-tone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}