Reading Lao: Vowels

Lesson 7

The goal of this seventh lesson is to read two Lao vowels, cxt and cx and to pronounce them with Lao consonants. You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below.


/6'cdtdyosphk
A herd of sheep are eating grasses

Listening and Reading these Vowels.


cdt
sheep

cd
horn

Practice 1: Reading with Consonants
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.

c8t	cxt	c]t	c;t
NM	NM	and	to stop by
cmt	c9t	c[t	c,t
NM	NM	NM	NM
cx	cr	c[	cz
flat	cloth	NM	bruise
cd	c4	c]	cs
horn	to shave	NM	net

Practice 2: Reading Words

dtc8t	cxt/k
a thatch	to be close to the wall
xkcxt	38cdt
NM	a body of a sheep
c;t,k	1kcz
to stop by	medication for the wound
c]sk	8kcs
to look for	net's hold size

Exercises

1. Dictation Exercise: On a sheet of paper, write in Lao the words that you hear by clicking on the speech icons.

After finishing the above dictation exercise, click here for the answers.

2. What tones do you hear? Rising, Low, Mid, High, High Falling, Low Falling

3. Which vowel is long, and which is short?

Vocabulary:

nouns: /6'(herd/group), cdt(sheep), sphk(grass), cd(horn), cr(cloth), cz(bruise/wound), cd(horn),
cs(net), dtc8t(braded bamboo board), /k(wall), 38cdt(sheep), 1k(medicine), 8k(eye), cs(net)

verbs: dyo(to eat), c;t(to stop by), c4(to shave), cxt(to be close), c;t(to stop by), ,k(to come),
c]sk(to look for)

preposition: c]t(and)

adjective: cx(flat)