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Tones

The Thai language has five tones (sounds): mid tone, low tone, falling tone, high tone, and rising tone.  But there are only four written tone marks as shown here.

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Whether the word will be pronounced with the same tone as the written tone mark or not depends on the consonant's word class.  (See the tone chart).

Click on any word in the table below to listen to the sound.

Consonants'  class mid tone low tone

falling tone

 high tone rising tone
Mid/long vowels dk djk dhk dUk dJk
Mid/short vowels   0t 0ht 0Ut  
High/long vowels   -jk -hk   -k
High/short vowels   lt      
Low/long vowels 8k   8jk 8hk  
Low/short vowels     8jt 8t  

 

Links:

| Tone Chart | 5 Tones of Bangkok Thai | Tone Test | Tone Menu | Print the Tone Chart |
| Consonants | Vowels | Reading | Writing | Conversation | Maanii Readers |
| Site map I | Thai Homepage | SEAsite | Thai Language Self-study Lessons |

Author: Jenjit
July 1999