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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says w at the start of a syllable and -w at the end. 37th in the alphabet, 16th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it constantly.
ว is the only one of the 44 letters that opens a syllable with w. And it is the only one that closes a syllable with -w.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ว, ◌่ 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: ว is w at the front of a syllable and -w at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 122, sits inside 790 and closes 137.
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. 68 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ว somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ว lit.
ว 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 ว lit among them.
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