How to learn tone rules in Thai?

When You already learn about class on consonant and vowels then you can learn tone tone.

If you didn’t learn and remember what consonants is in each class CLICK HERE to learn.

To prepare yourself to understand more about tone what you need to know are:

Each consonant class (Mid class, High class , Low class)
Short vowels and long vowel
Final sound ( sonorant sound : n,m,y,w,y and stop final g , b, d) There are only 8 final sound in Thai. Thai has 21 initial sound (there are totally 44 consonants )
Dead syllable means : the syllable which combine with short vowels or stop final ( g,b,d) except these 4 short vowels อำ , ไอ , ใอ , เอา
Life syllable means : the syllable which combine with long vowel or sonorant final (n,m,y,w,ng) also include these 4 short vowels อำ , ไอ , ใอ , เอา
Tone marks always appear on top of the initial consonant sound (except when it is cluster sound)

In This table is only the rules of Middle class consonants ( ก จ ด ต ฎ ฏ บ ป อ). For life syllable can make 5 tones กา ก่า ก้า ก๊า ก๋า or กาน ก่าน ก้าน ก๊าน ก๋าน and for dead syllable can make 4 tones กะ ก่ะ ก้ะ ก๊ะ ก๋ะ or กาด ก้าด ก๊าด ก๋าด
The tone mark on top of (green color word) always low tone ( mai eg ไม้เอก )
The tone mark on top of (blue color word) make falling tone ( mai toe ไม้โท )
The tone mark on top of (pink color word) make high tone ( mai dtree ไม้ตรี )
The tone mark on top of (red color word) make rising tone ( mai jad-dta-waa ไม้จัตวา )
Mid class consonant with short vowel or stop final ( g,b,d) the word or syllable become low tone automatic so you don’t put “mai eg ไม้เอก” [tone mark for low tone] but for life syllable you need to put tone mark for low tone.

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