Reading Lao: Vowels

Lesson 9

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


g9p oqd c]t V6 c,jo laf xjk
Bats, birds, and mice are wild animals

Listening and Reading these Vowels.

	gxap
8ugxap
to slap
	gxp
g9p
bat

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.

gxap

gdap

g0ap

g9ap

g-ap

g]ap

gpap

gmap

gxp

g9p

glp

g-p

g,p

bat

to loose

wife

g[p

gxp

grp

g]p

beer

to weave

to lick

Practice 2: Reading Words

8ug0ap	8ugxapgxap
NM	slapping
,kskg9p	r=fu
searching for bats	just right
l=luglp	xu,tg,p
pen with no ink	year of the horse
,u38g9p	8ugxapgxap
there's a bat	slapping

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: g9p(bat), oqd(bird), V6(mouse), laf(animal), xjk(forest), g,p(wife), g[p(beer), l=(pencil/pen),
lu(color), xu,tg,p(year of the horse)

verbs: c,jo(to be), 8ugxap(to slap), glp(to loose), g]p(to lick), ,k(to come), sk(to find), lu(to rub),
,u(to have), 8u(to hit)

preposition: c]t(and)

adjective: 38(big)

adverb: r=fu(just right)