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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says ph at the start of a syllable and -p at the end. 32nd in the alphabet, 40th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it now and then.
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 ภ is among them.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ภ, ◌่ 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: ภ is ph at the front of a syllable and -p at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 63, sits inside 151 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 ภ 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. 8 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ภ somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ภ lit.
ภ 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 ภ lit among them.
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