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Consonants (พยัญชนะ)

Thai consonants are divided into three classes:low, medium and high, which determine the tone of Thai syllable. Thai alphabet consists 44 consonants with 21 sounds. Some consonants represent the same sounds to others. In addition some consonants represent two different sounds when they are used as the initial and final consonants of a syllable.
The following video represents all Thai consonants with sounds. This video belongs to Learn-Thai-Podcast.com. It is the great video with correct pronunciation.



Two consonants are obsolete that are ฃ and ฅ
As the abovementioned, Thai consonants are divided into three classes:
Low: ค ฅ ฆ ง ช ซ ฌ ญ ฑ ฒ ณ ท ธ น พ ฟ ภ ม ย ร ล ว ฬ ฮ
Medium: ก จ ฎ ด ฏ ต บ ป อ
High: ข ฃ ฉ ถ ฐ ผ ฝ ศ ษ ส ห

The consonants which represent the same sound:
--> ค ฅ ฆ
--> ช ฌ
--> ญ ย
--> ฑ ฒ ท ธ
--> ณ น
--> พ ภ
--> ล ฬ
--> ฎ ด
--> ฏ ต
--> ข ฃ
--> ถ ฐ
--> ศ ษ ส

The following video will show you all classes of consonant. This video belongs to ashoka10 channel on youtube.com. It is the great one with great explanation.



The four extra letters in the above video are classified as a vowel so you do not see them in the first video. You can notice that all Thai consonants end with the sound "-aw" (notice only the first syllable of each consonant because that is the sound of its. The following word is the word it consists and we say this to make it different from other ones which have the same sound)
ฤ ฤๅ ฦ ฦๅ are derived from Sanskrit and classified as the vowels.
ฤ represent the sound of รึ
ฤๅ represent the sound of รือ
ฦ represent the sound of ลึ
ฦๅ represent the sound of ลือ
Remember them then you will understand more when you learn about Thai vowel.

The following video will show you the combination of some consonants and the sound of them. This video belongs to ashoka10 channel on youtube.com. (For the 100% correct pronunciation, I will try to make a video later ^_^ but in this video is quite good)



Thank you so much for all youtube members who contribute these wonderful videos for us to learn and enjoy.