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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says l at the start of a syllable and -n at the end. 42nd in the alphabet, 43rd of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it now and then.
2 of the 44 letters open a syllable with l, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 6 letters close one with -n, and ฬ is among them.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ฬ, ◌่ 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: ฬ is l at the front of a syllable and -n at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 0, sits inside 8 and closes 2.
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 ฬ first. It is a letter you meet inside words — 8 of them — never at the front of one.
A word list is a specimen jar, and this letter has nothing in the field.
Not one of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app contains ฬ. It survives inside 8 words — กีฬา among them — and nowhere else: a letter for spellings borrowed whole from Pali and Sanskrit, not for anything anyone says.
ฬ 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 ฬ lit among them.
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