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A mid-class consonant. It says ʔ at the start of a syllable and makes no sound at all at the end — it never closes one. 43rd in the alphabet, 19th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it constantly.
อ is the only one of the 44 letters that opens a syllable with ʔ. It closes nothing: อ is one of 3 letters that can only ever open a syllable.
Mid class is the only class that takes all four tone marks, so อ can be written at any of the five tones. Take the live vowel away and it drops to low whether the vowel was short or long.
อ is ʔ at the front of a syllable and silence at the back — it closes none. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 223 and sits inside 1,031, and 101 are written with it last — where it is a vowel letter, not a final.
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.
Not a final consonant: written last, อ is doing a vowel's job — the -ɔɔ of ขอ, the -ɯɯ of มือ.
…and 95 more.A word list is a specimen jar. 122 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with อ somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every อ lit.
อ is one of 9 mid-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 อ lit among them.
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