Thai is the official language of Thailand, a country known as the land of golden temples, a tourist paradise, a shopping paradise, a land of friendly smiles... Thai is a difficult language to learn because of its complex tone combinations and spelling rules. However, if you love and persevere in learning, anyone can use this language.
If you love Thailand and want to learn Thai, the first thing you need to do is get acquainted with and memorize the Thai alphabet.
The Thai alphabet consists of 44 consonants, 9 vowels written in 14 different ways, 4 tone marks, the flat tone without a mark, and 28 vowel marks.
Thai consonant chart

In Thai, the 44 consonants are divided into 28 basic consonants and 16 compound consonants. Of the 44 consonants, 2 are no longer used,
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Vowels in Thai
Thai has 32 vowels, forming 9 long vowel tones (with 2 or more letters), 9 short vowel tones, and 3 diphthongs. Diphthongs can be on either side of a consonant.
In Thai, vowels do not come at the beginning of a sentence but can only come above, below, before and after consonants.
Double vowel table

Table of 9 short vowels and 9 long vowels

Table of vowels with similar meanings

Three vowel chords
