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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A high-class consonant. It says ph at the start of a syllable and -p at the end. 28th in the alphabet, 36th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it constantly.
3 of the 44 letters open a syllable with ph, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 7 letters close one with -p, and ผ is among them.
High class takes only two of the four marks. Unmarked and live, ผ 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: ผ is ph at the front of a syllable and -p at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 111, sits inside 99 and closes 0.
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 here is written with ผ last. The -p ending is real — the 7 letters above share it — but other letters do that job in practice.
A word list is a specimen jar. 10 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ผ somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ผ lit.
ผ 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 ผ lit among them.
high-class · 11