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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Thai on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Thai in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Thai borrowed a large number of words from Sanskrit and Pali, and the Thai alphabet was created so that the original spelling of these words could be preserved as much as possible. This means that the Thai alphabet has a number of "duplicate" letters that represent separate sounds in Sanskrit and Pali (e.g. the alveolo-palatal fricative ś ...
For example, the word ᨣ᩶ᩤ (Northern Thai pronunciation:; Khuen: [kaː˦˩]) which is equivalent to Thai ค้า (Thai pronunciation:), and Lao ຄ້າ (Lao pronunciation:) all has the same meaning "to trade" and is expressed with the same or equivalent tone mark mai tho/mai kho jang but is pronounced with different tones differed by ...
Mai Taniyama, a character in the anime and manga Ghost Hunt; Mai Tokiha, the title character in the anime and manga My-HiME (originally Mai-HiME), and a supporting character in My-Otome; Mai Tsubasa (aka Change Phoenix), a character in Dengeki Sentai Changeman; Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Yu-Gi ...
A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok. Thai, [a] or Central Thai [b] (historically Siamese; [c] [d] Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai, Mon, Lao Wiang, Phuan people in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Northern Thai on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Northern Thai in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The same word in some parts of Isan near Roi Et Province would confusingly sound to Thai ears like ขา kha /kʰǎː/ with a rising tone, where the local tone patterns would have many pronounce the word with a rising-high-falling heavier on the rising. Although a native Thai speaker would be able to pick up the meaning of the similar words of ...
According to Wei and Zhou (2002), Thai is a tonal language, whose syllables take approximately the same time to pronounce, Thai people often have difficulty with English word stress. They, instead, stress the last syllable by adding high pitch (Choksuansup, 2014).