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The Thai script itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols (Thai: พยัญชนะ, phayanchana), 16 vowel symbols (Thai: สระ, sara) that combine into at least 32 vowel forms, four tone diacritics (Thai: วรรณยุกต์ or วรรณยุต, wannayuk or wannayut), and other diacritics.
The general system should be in consonance with the principles of Thai grammar, orthography, and pronunciation. In selecting symbols or letters, account should be taken of existing types for printing and typewriting and of existing systems of transcription. The committee considered that for the general system, tone and quantity marks were unneeded.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Thai pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA , and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
2009-02-19T21:21:35Z Moxfyre 980x720 (18429 Bytes) fonts Bitstream->DejaVu (apparently all the IPA symbols actually come from DejaVu which is a derivative of Bitstream... whoops) 2009-02-19T18:25:44Z Moxfyre 980x720 (18659 Bytes) Added example vowel markers and labels, margins with room for labels, and explanatory text, split into separate SVG ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Thai_vowel_chart_(monophthongs).png licensed with PD-self . 2008-01-18T22:35:49Z Aeusoes1 882x676 (22026 Bytes) {{Information |Description=IPA vowel chart for [[w:Thai language|Thai]] monophthongs |Source=self-made, based on chart taken from page 242 of Tingsabadh & Abramson, "Thai" in ''Journal of the International Phonetic Associatio
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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
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Last names became legally required of Thai citizens in 1913 with the passing of the Surname Act 1913. [2] [1] Until then, most Thais used only a first or given name.. According to the current law, Person Name Act, BE 2505 (1962), to create a new Thai surname, it must be no longer than ten Thai letters, excluding vowel symbols and diac