Thai An Essential Grammar

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Thai An Essential Grammar

Introduction 1
Thai and its speakers 1
Romanisation 2
Learning Thai 2
Dictionaries 3
Linguistic literature on Thai 3
Chapter 1 Pronunciation 5
1.1 Consonants 5
1.2 Vowels and diphthongs 7
1.3 Tones 9
1.4 Stress 10
Chapter 2 The writing system 11
2.1 Consonants 11
2.2 Consonants by class 14
2.3 Vowels 14
2.4 Live syllables and dead syllables 15
2.5 Tone rules 16
2.6 Miscellaneous 19
Chapter 3 Nouns, classifiers and noun phrases 23
3.1 Proper nouns 23
3.2 Common nouns