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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says kh at the start of a syllable and -k at the end. 6th in the alphabet, 22nd of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it almost never.
5 of the 44 letters open a syllable with kh, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 6 letters close one with -k, and ฆ is among them.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ฆ, ◌่ 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: ฆ is kh at the front of a syllable and -k at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 5, sits inside 7 and closes 1.
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, and this letter has nothing in the field.
Not one of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app contains ฆ. It survives inside 7 words — มีเมฆมาก among them — and nowhere else: a letter for spellings borrowed whole from Pali and Sanskrit, not for anything anyone says.
ฆ 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 ฆ lit among them.
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