Subject: L.1) The de facto transcription scheme for soc.culture.thai
The transcription scheme was put together by Khun Wirote Aroonmanakun
(waroonma@guvax.georgetown.edu) with great input from many SCT folks,
notably a consonant table from Khun Rob Reed (rreed@mtwire.es.com) and
a vowel table from Khun Parames Laosinchai (CHLBB@CUNYVM.BITNET).
44 CONSONANTS
| k | kh | kh | kh | kh | kh | ng | |
| j | ch | ch | s | ch | y | |
| d | t | th | th | th | n | |
| d | t | th | th | th | n | |
| b | p | ph | f | ph | f | ph | m | |
| y | r | l | w | s | s | s | h | l | ? | h |
Final Sounds
| Obstruent Endings: | k or g | t or d | p or b | |
| Soronant Endings: | ng | n | m | y | w |
Tone Markers
| - | | for normal tone | / 0 |
| ' | | for low tone | / 1 |
| " | | for falling tone | / 2 |
| ^ | | for high tone | / 3 |
| + | | for rising tone | / 4 |
Basic.Vowels
| a | | as in ka' (estimate) |
| aa | | as in kaa- (crow) |
| i | | as in ti' (blame) |
| ii | | as in tii- (hit) |
| U | | as in ?U' (shit) |
| UU | | as in mUU- (hand) |
| u | | as in du' (scold) |
| uu | | as in duu- (look) |
| e | | as in te' (kick) |
| ee | | as in thee- (pour) |
| A | | as in lA^ (and) |
| AA | | as in lAA- (look) |
| o | | as in to^ (table) |
| oo | | as in to- (big) |
| O | | as in kO" (island) |
| OO | | as in rOO- (wait) |
| E | | as in lE^ (dirty) |
| EE | | as in rEE- (Belch) |
Compound Vowels
| ua | | as in yua^ (angry) |
| uaa | | as in tuaa- (body) |
| ia | | as in pria^ (tight) |
| iaa | | as in miaa- (wife) |
| Ua | | (no example) |
| Uaa | | as in rUaa- (ship) |
Excess Vowels (sa'ra'kEEn-)
| ay or ai | | as in nay- or nai- (in) |
| aw or au | | as in daw- or dau- (guess) |
[Editor's note: Two transliteration schemes have been proposed. Both proposals are available for anonymous FTP at the URL:
ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/soc.culture.thai/SCTinfo/langauge/proposal-*
Post your comments back to soc.culture.thai.]
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