Reading Lao: consonant

Lesson 9

The goal of this lesson is to learn Lao consonants, 0 /khO4O, high class/, 7 /khO@O, low class/, s /hO4O, high class/ and I /hO@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.


	w0j sjko .o Ia'
	Goose eggs in the nest.

Listen to and read these consonants.1

	0 Syllables & Tones
w0j
egg
	7 Syllables & Tones
7;kp
buffalo
	s Syllables & Tones
sjko
goose/geese
	I Syllables & Tones
gInv
boat

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.


0	0t	0y	05	0b	30t
0	NM	NM	NM	NM	NM
7	7k	7u	76	7n	37
7	NM	NM	teacher	NM	NM
s	st	sy	sb	s5	3st
s	NM	NM	NM	NM	NM
I	Ik	Iu	In	I6	3I
I	NM	NM	NM	hole	NM

Practice 2: Reading words

I6s6	76sk	I6Ik	0kdtx6
ear hole	A teacher is searching	NM	crab leg
'6xk	,ksk	I6dtx6	I6,u
snake fish	to come visit	crab hole	there's a hole
dtx6	0k05
crab	leg fell off

Vocabulary:

nouns: w0j(egg), sjko (goose/geese), Ia' (nest), 7;kp (buffalo), gInv (boat)
preposition: .o (in)