Richard,

Thanks for the link. I haven't lost interest.

Suzanne

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:
>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" wrote:
> >> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth" wrote:
> >>> Is Thai taught as a syllabary - with a syllable chart?
>
> > Yes it is! If you go to
>
<http://www.thailandguidebook.com/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=6929;st=0;r=1>
> > , Post 2, you'll not only get an explanation and a link to the first
> > chart, but with the first chart a video of the class chanting the
chart!
>
> The links have been broken by the site's migration. The discussion
> and text link is at and from
> http://www.thailandqa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6577 . I can't get
> the link to the video to work; I have to type its URL in directly,
> which is http://www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/multimedia/thaireader.WMV .
> The URL seems to be case-sensitive.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>
> >
> > The table is rather cut down from the possible 42 by 32 array - it
> > only shows the common mid class consonant letters (unaspirated
> > plosives), combined with the four graphically simple pairs of short
> > and long vowels - /a/, /i/, /M/ (high back unrounded) and /u/. The
> > consonant sounds are in strictly phonetic order - glottal stop, /k/,
> > /c/, /d/, /t/, /b/ and /p/. (/k/ and /c/ lack voiced counterparts,
> > and the letter for the glottal stop is the next to last _letter_ of
> > the alphabet, while the letter for /k/ is the first letter of the
> > alphabet.) The two mid class letters corresponding to Indian
> > retroflexes are omitted - they are only used in words perceived to be
> > Indic loans.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>