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Supplement to the Purnell Thai Language Course Module One
CONTENTS * Phrases, Questions, classifiers, and family * Vocabulary/Dictionary alphabetized in English
Thai is a tonal language with five tones.
The best way to show this in English is using IPA The majority of the symbols in the IPA are based on the letter forms of the Latin alphabet, like in English, however an initial c sounds like a j, an initial k sounds like a g, an initial p sounds like a pb, and an initial t sounds like a dt. Those letters when followed by an h, then have the usual English initial sound, i.e ph, is p as in put, it does not make an f sound. The N sounds like ng. For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet Excellent resources for learning Thai and
other dictionaries are at A comprehensive site on learning Thai is at www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/spokenthai/unit1/default.htm If you have trouble viewing the fonts see www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm You can download the vocabulary list in Excel format for printing. You can view the entire dictionary here. You can download the entire module 1 supplement in Word format for printing
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