Reading Lao: consonant

Lesson 6


The goal of this lesson is to learn three Lao consonants, 9 /cOO, middle class/, l /sO4O, high class/ and - /sO@O, low class/ and to pronounce them with Lao vowels. You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below.


	lafxjk
	Wild animals

Listen to and read these consonants.1

	9 Syllables & Tones
Vk9vd
fox
	l Syllables & Tones
glnv
tiger
	- Syllables & Tones
-hk'
elephant

Practice 1: Reading with Vowels
To find out what tones these syllables have, please click tone.
Some of these syllables do not have meaning attached to them.
NM - no meaning.
The goal is to practice reading and listening.


9	9t	9k	9y	9u	9b
	will	NM	NM	NM	NM
	9n	95	96	39t	39
	NM	NM	NM	NM	NM
l	lt	lk	ly	lu	lb
	NM	NM	NM	color	NM
	ln	l5	l6	3lt	3l
	NM	NM	NM	NM	NM
-	-t	-k	-y	-u	-b
	NM	tea	NM	NM	NM
	-n	-5	-6	3-t	3-
	NM	NM	support	NM	NM

Practice 2: Reading words

lufk	,ksk	lk]u	vk-6l5	lt[6
person's name	to pay a visit	corn	person's name	soap

Vocabulary:

nouns: laf (animal), xjk (wild, jungle), Vk9vd (fox), glnv (tiger), -hk' (elephant)
adjective: xjk (wild)