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Note: Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Thai is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thai, Lanna Tai, and Pali languages.
The Thai script (like all Indic scripts) uses a number of modifications to write Sanskrit and related languages (in particular, Pali). Pali is very closely related to Sanskrit and is the liturgical language of Thai Buddhism. In Thailand, Pali is written and studied using a slightly modified Thai script.
The general system should be in consonance with the principles of Thai grammar, orthography, and pronunciation. In selecting symbols or letters, account should be taken of existing types for printing and typewriting and of existing systems of transcription. The committee considered that for the general system, tone and quantity marks were unneeded.
The ordering of Unicode characters for consonants and vowels is: onset letters, true vowel marks, coda consonants, onset letters, true vowel marks, coda consonants. [3]: Section 14 For convenience, one reckons that symbols killing vowels are vowels. The 'onset letters' are consonants, independent vowels or special symbols.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Thai on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Thai in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Kho khuat (ฃ ขวด, khuat is Thai for 'bottle') is the third letter of the Thai alphabet. It is a high consonant in the Thai tripartite consonant system (ไตรยางศ์, informally อักษรสามหมู่). It represents the sound [k h] as an initial consonant and [k̚] as a final consonant.
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Nameboard of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai written with Lanna: Wat Mokhamtuang (and street number 119 in Thai) Northern Thai inscription in Tai Tham script in Chiang Mai. The Tai Tham script shows a strong similarity to the Mon script used by the Mon kingdom of Haripunjaya around the 13th century CE, in the present-day Lamphun Province of Northern Thailand.