The first thing you learn as Thai students, Thai is a tonal language.
What exactly does this mean?
In languages that do not Toene know, it's will no matter what tone in spoken word. The meaning of the word will always remain the same. In many, if not all Asian languages, plays the sound of a word, a very important role. I know for instance, that the Chinese language an almost identical tone controls has as Thai.
changes in Thai, the meaning of a word change when the Tonverlauf. The sounds can also be written in Thai.
A distinction between:
รูป วรรณยุกต์ - Ruub wan-na-jug = written and audible signals
เสียง วรรณยุกต์ - siang wan-na-jug = spoken Toene
1) The tone marks รูป วรรณยุกต์ (Written tone marks)
which gives it 4 different audio tone.
first ่ This means audible signals: ไม้เอก , saying, mai eeg and the importance of the deep sound. Not with the vowel "fon thong" = ฝน ทอง ( ') confused, this is the string that is used to the long ii as อี เอี ยะ write and เอี ย . They look very similar.
second ้ This means audible signals: ไม้โท , say: May too and has the significance of the falling tone.
third ๊ This means audible signals: ไม้ตรี , say, May, trii and the importance of high note. As the number 7
4th ๋ This means audible signals: ไม้จัตวา , that is: Jad mai-ta-waa added and the increasing importance of the sound. How the "plus" sign in mathematics.
These 4 tone marks to be written about a initial consonant, for example:
ก่ ก้ ก๊ ก๋
is about an initial consonant a vowel, the tone marks still above the written vowel, for example, are
กิ่ กิ้ กิ๊ กิ๋
initial consonant Thai in 3 groups divided (low middle and high) are used and combined to with other criteria to determine the tone of a syllable, if no tone symbol is present-that is, when audible signals to increase the emphasis on rules of initial consonants and it is only the Tonvorgabe the audible signals (audible signals before syllable quality).
2) spoken sounds เสียง วรรณยุกต์
There are 5 but only 4 spoken tones audible signals, the heist, the emphasis is also important for words that do not have audible signals. These above said audible signals, is thus still a sound on it that is not written by an audio tone, Namely, the mean tone.
first medium tone.
second low tone.
third falling tone.
4th high tone.
5th rising tone
As above, it is indeed in Thai textbooks. Here again a
should be told explicitly to donate to avoid confusion:
In this section concerns only the existence of 5 different tones, it's not about reading itself. By that I mean
as follows:
From this statement above could permit the inference that the average tone is used when no audio tone is present. This is not the case . The sound is still determined by other criteria.
If no tone symbol is present, but shall follow rule for a medium tone :
1) words without tone marks AND low or average initial consonant AND only planes syllables is the average sound . Is the syllable Tot that hits too anymore.
For high consonant อักษร สูง pronounced agson suung, so the high group of the initial consonant is not applicable (11 consonants: ข ฃ ฉ ฐ ถ ผ ฝ ศ ษ ส ห ).
The root of this group is the "rising tone" ( เสียง จัตวา = siaang Jad-ta-waa), but if
high initial consonant + live without the tone marks of deep tone.
However, if a syllable is dead + high initial consonant without tone marks is that of increasing tone. is considered the rough
mittlere Ton (ohne Tonzeichen) ja schon fast eine Ausnahme, denn Silben die das betrifft müssen Mittlere bzw tiefen Anfangskonsonanten in lebenen Silben sein .
