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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says n at the start of a syllable and -n at the end. 19th in the alphabet, 32nd of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it now and then.
2 of the 44 letters open a syllable with n, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 6 letters close one with -n, and ณ is among them.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ณ, ◌่ gives falling rather than low and ◌้ gives highrather than falling. A dead syllable then turns on the vowel’s length.
The same letter is two sounds: ณ is n at the front of a syllable and -n at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 0, sits inside 158 and closes 17.
Position here is orthographic — where the letter is written, not where it is said. The five leading vowels เ แ โ ใ ไ are skipped when deciding what comes first, so ไก่ counts as a word that starts with ก.
No word in this app is written with ณ first. It is a letter you meet inside words — 158 of them — never at the front of one.
A word list is a specimen jar. 21 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ณ somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ณ lit.
ณ is one of 24 low-class consonants. That membership is the single fact the ladder in 02 is built on — change the class and every tone in it changes. Here they all are, with ณ lit among them.
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