ไทย
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Thai is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Thai involves.
Lingo7 does not read Thai yet: the app has no Thai dictionary, audio or books, and Thai text needs splitting into words, since it has no spaces. Thai is on the shortlist of languages to add. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Thai is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Thai would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Thailand
The 44 consonant letters of Thai stand for only 21 consonant sounds. The extra letters keep the spelling of Sanskrit and Pali loanwords, or of sounds that Old Thai had and the modern language has lost, so reading is easier than spelling. Vowels are written around the consonant, and five of them (เ แ โ ใ ไ) come before it on the page but after it in speech: in เมือง (city) the eye meets the vowel first and the ear hears the m first.
Two styles of type are common. Books, schoolbooks and official documents mostly use looped fonts, in which many letters start with a small circle, while advertising, signs and much of the web use loopless fonts that look closer to Latin sans serif. The same letter can look quite different in the two, so a learner has to practise on both. Thai has its own digits (๑ ๒ ๓), but most texts use 0 to 9, and Thai numerals appear mainly on government documents and election posters.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Thai needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Thai is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Thai dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Thai book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Thai launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
It is a rule of the script: five vowels, เ แ โ ใ ไ, sit to the left of the consonant they follow in speech. Other vowels go above, below or after it, and some wrap around it. A reader therefore takes in a whole syllable before sounding it out.
Looped fonts give many letters a small circle where the stroke starts and are standard in books and official documents. Loopless fonts drop the circles and have been the usual choice in advertising for decades. Most learners start with the looped letters and pick up the loopless ones from signs and websites.
Thai has its own digits, from ๐ to ๙, but most texts use the same 0 to 9 as English. Thai numerals are mostly limited to government documents, election posters and a few other official uses.