Thai Consonants

Listing of Consonants in Alphabetical Order

• There are 44 consonant symbols in the Thai alphabet, which generate 21 start consonant sounds and 6 final consonant sounds when employed at the beginning and end of syllables, respectively.
• There are 24 consonants of the lowest class, 9 consonants of the middle class, and 11 consonants of the highest class; the classes are significant for establishing the tone with which a syllable should be uttered.
• Due to the fact that numerous consonants generate the same sound, each consonant has an acrophonic term that is commonly used to identify it.

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Initial Consonant Phones

• There are twenty-one consonant sounds that can occur at the start of a syllable in Thai.
• At syllable-initial position, any one of the forty-four Thai consonant graphemes may be applied.
• According to their phonetic properties, the 21 sounds can be categorized as sonorant, plain, or aspirated.

21 Initial Consonant Sounds

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6 Final Consonant Sounds

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