As mentioned in the previous two posts, 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 continue with the Mid class consonants (MCC) because I believe it is the next easiest of the three.<\/p>\n
The mid class consonants are:<\/p>\n
\u0e01, \u0e08, \u0e0e, \u0e0f, \u0e14, \u0e15, \u0e1a, \u0e1b, \u0e2d<\/strong><\/p>\n You will need to memorize this list. The MCC are the only consonants that can achieve all five Thai tones. In the following rules I won\u2019t go over every letter, but the rules apply to any of the MCC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. If a MCC has a live (or no) ending consonant, and no tone mark, the tone is mid<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e01\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e14\u0e32\u0e27<\/p>\n \u0e01\u0e25\u0e32\u0e07<\/p>\n \u0e43\u0e1a<\/p>\n \u0e43\u0e08<\/p>\n \u0e44\u0e1b<\/p>\n \u0e08\u0e32\u0e19<\/p>\n \u0e15\u0e32\u0e21<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. If a MCC has a \u0e2d\u0e49 tone mark, with or without a dead consonant, the tone is falling<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e44\u0e14\u0e49<\/p>\n \u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e43\u0e15\u0e49<\/p>\n \u0e08\u0e49\u0e32<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. If a MCC has a \u0e2d\u0e48 tone mark, and\/or has a dead ending consonant, the tone is low<\/em>. This is the same for a HCC.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0e08\u0e32\u0e01<\/p>\n \u0e1b\u0e32\u0e1a<\/p>\n \u0e1a\u0e32\u0e17<\/p>\n \u0e08\u0e48\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e44\u0e01\u0e48<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01<\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e14\u0e47\u0e01<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notice the last four examples. The \u0e2d is silent, and only exists to modify the tone of the word. Without the \u0e2d, each of those four words would have had a falling<\/em> tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As mentioned in the previous two posts, 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 continue with the Mid class consonants (MCC) because I believe it is the next 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":[4761,10502,33098,254613,10177,254607],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","tag-consonant","tag-dead","tag-live","tag-low-class","tag-thai","tag-tone"],"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