Reading Lao: consonant

Lesson 8

The goal of this lesson is to learn three Lao consonants, ' /NO@O, low class/, p /ñO@O, low class/ and 1 /yOO, middle class/ and to pronounce them with Lao vowels. You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below.


	1k cdh w0h p5'
	Medicine to cure malaria.

Listen to and read these consonants.1

	' Syllables & Tones
'q;
cow
	p Syllables & Tones
p5'
mosquitos
	1 Syllables & Tones
1k
medicine

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.


'	't	'k	'y	'u	'b
	NM	sesame	NM	NM	NM
	'n	'5	'6	3't	3'
	NM	NM	snake	NM	turn
p	pt	pk	py	pu	pb
	split	NM	NM	NM	NM
	pn	p5	p6	3pt	3p
	NM	NM	NM	NM	lift
1	1t	1k	1y	1u	1b
	NM	drug	NM	NM	NM
	1n	15	16	31t	31
	NM	NM	NM	NM	NM

Practice 2: reading words

mk1k	'kfu	,up6	'6xk
to rub on medication	good sesame	NM	snake fish
3',k	dt3xt	vk,u	1kfu
to turn around	coconut shell	person's name	good medicine

Vocabulary:

nouns: 1k (medicine), w0h (fever), 'q; (cow), p5' (mosquitos), w0h p5' (malaria)
verb: cdh(to cure)