LESSON NOTES

Thai Alphabet Made Easy #11

The silent letter aaw

CONTENTS
2 Vocabulary
2 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar

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VOCABULARY

Thai Romanization English Class

เกาะพีพี gàw phii-phii Phi-Phi Island noun

เอา to take, to get, to

ao bring, to want verb

อีก ìik again, another adverb, adjective

ตอบ dtàawp to answer verb

เกาะ gàw island noun

SAMPLE SENTENCES

หมูเกาะพีพีต้ ง
ั อยูในจัง หวัดกระบี่ คุณชวยเอาฝามาครอบอาหารใหห นอย
mùu-gàw-phii-phii dtâng-yùu nai jang-wàt grà-bìi
ไดไหมคะ
"The Phi Phi islands are located in Krabi khun chûuai ao fǎa maa khrâawp aa-hǎan hâi-
province." nàwy dâai-mǎi khá

"Could you please put the lid on the food

for me?"

เขาเอาหินเรียงตอกันเป็ นรูปดาว ดิฉันไมไดเอาผาเช็ดตัวมา

khǎo ao hǐn riiang dtàaw gan bpen rûup daao dì-chǎn mâi dâi ao phâa-chét-dtuua maa

"He arranges rocks into a star." "I didn't bring my bath towel."

ฉันอยากเจอคุณอีก ชวยพูดชาๆอีกครั้ง ไดไหม

chǎn yàak jooe khun ìik chûuai phûut cháa-cháa ìik-khráng dâai mǎi?

"I want to meet you again." "Could you say that slowly one more
time?"

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นักเรียนกําลัง ตอบคําถามกันอยู
nák-riian gam-lang dtàawp kham-thǎam gan yùu
"The students are answering the
questions."
ประเทศอินโดนีเซียเป็ นประเทศที่มีเกาะ
มากที่สุดในโลก
bprà-thêet in-doo-nii-siia bpen bprà-thêet thîi mii
gàw mâak thîi sùt nai lôok

"Indonesia is the country composed of

the most islands in the world."

GRAMMAR

The Focus of This Lesson are the letter อ (aaw àang) , and the Vowel สระ เอาะ (sà-
rà àw)

อ (aaw àang)

This is the letter อ (aaw àang), which we introduced briefly in lesson 6. The word อาง

(àang) means "basin." อ is a middle class consonant, but it has no sound as the initial
consonant of a syllable. We only use it to start a syllable when we need to have a vowel for
the initial sound. All the vowels in Thai need to be written attached to a consonant. But if a
word begins with a vowel sound instead of a consonant sound, we need to have a silent

consonant that the vowel can attach to. So อ is a dummy consonant that can just be used
as a placeholder to give an initial vowel a place to go.

It's easy to write อ. We start with a counter clockwise head, and just continue into a
counterclockwise curl.

อ doesn't make any sound when we use it as a consonant. But we can also use the same
letter to represent a vowel sound. The vowel that is written using the letter อ is called สระ

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ออ (sà-rà aaw). It makes the long vowel sound "aaw" like the AW in "saw." You can tell that
อ is acting like a vowel when it follows a consonant and doesn't have another vowel
attached to it.

สระ เอาะ (sà-rà àw)

There is a short version of สระ ออ called สระ เอาะ (sà-rà àw). It looks totally different

from the long version of the vowel, so look carefully to remember all of its parts. สระ

เอาะ is written with สระ เอ in front of the consonant. Then it has สระ อา and สระ
อะ after the consonant.
Pronunciation Tip

Middle class consonant with a dead syllable is low tone. Remember dead syllables are any
that end with short vowels or one of the 3 stopping sounds K, T, or P.

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