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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A high-class consonant. It says th at the start of a syllable and -t at the end. 22nd in the alphabet, 33rd of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it constantly.
6 of the 44 letters open a syllable with th, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 18 letters close one with -t, and ถ is among them.
High class takes only two of the four marks. Unmarked and live, ถ rises; ◌่ pulls it low and ◌้ makes it fall. Every dead syllable is low, and there is no mark that can change that.
The same letter is two sounds: ถ is th at the front of a syllable and -t at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 40, sits inside 109 and closes 18.
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.
A word list is a specimen jar. 14 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ถ somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ถ lit.
ถ is one of 11 high-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 ถ lit among them.
high-class · 11