Reading Lao: Vowels & Final Consonants

Lesson 2


The goal of this lesson is to learn vowel and consonant ending, x5', x6', gxa', gx', ggxa'and ggx' and to pronounce them with Lao consonant. You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button below or the underlined words.


xhk8bdxk
Aunty is fishing

Listening and Reading these Endings.1

	x5'
dtf5h'
fishing net
	gxa'
xkg0a'
a type of fish
	ggx'
gg,'gg7'
a type of insect

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.

x5'	[5'	m5'	p5'	g0qhks5'
x5'	NM	flag	mosquitos	cooked rice
x6'	p6'	l6'	96'	/6'cs
x6'	NM	tall	hold hand and lead	NM
gxa'	g0a'	g8a'	g[a'	xkg0a'
gxa'	NM	NM	NM	a type of fish
gx'	gr'	gv'	g]'	2a'gr'
gx'	music	NM	NM	listening to music
ggxa'	cva'	c8a'	cxa'	8ucxaj'
ggxa'	NM	NM	NM	NM
ggx'	gg7'	ggr'	ggI'	Vhkggf'
ggx'	NM	expensive	forceful/hard	red face

Practice 2: Reading and Listening
The goal is to listen and identify syllables that you hear.
Each syllable is separated by spaces.

g9qhk 1jk 2a' gg8j gr'

grkt 9t rk .sh [+ I6h Va' ln

gg]t gg0j' g0qk [+ wfh

Vocabulary:

xhk(aunt), 8bd(to fish/scoop), xk(fish), dtf5h'(fishing net), m5'(flag), gg,'(insect), p5'(mosquitos), g0qhks5'(cooked rice), l6'(tall), 96'(to hold hand and lead), gr'(music), 2a'(to listen), ggr'(expensive), ggI'(forceful/hard), Vhk(face), ggf'(red)