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What is the ooe vowel here?

wealthychef_18948
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What is the ooe vowel here?

Postby wealthychef_18948 » November 2nd, 2014 3:07 pm

I got this word today as the word of the day from thaipod101.
So here is the word:
การเดินทาง
I am just learning the alphabet and so each time I get such a word, I sound it out and try to guess its pronunciation. Usually I'm a little wrong, and that's fine. The pronunciation for this one is "gaan dooen thaang". Based on its apparent spelling I thought it would be "ga ra di thang", which is a pretty bad guess. :-) Anyhow, so we see this ooe vowel:
เดิน
It looks like "e", but I have never seen this ooe vowel before. Thaipod101 does not seem to even teach about vowels, all I found was this: http://www.thaipod101.com/thai-alphabet/
Online, nobody mentions this ooe vowel. Has anyone seen a comprehensive list of thai vowels? How can I learn the language when they keep making up new vowels?

Here are some sources I found that do not list this vowel: http://letstalkthai.com/2009/07/07/thai ... ge-vowels/
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~c7/art388/me ... habet.html

community.thai
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Re: What is the ooe vowel here?

Postby community.thai » November 9th, 2014 4:15 am

Hello,

Thank you vey much for your comment. For your question, the thaipod alphabet videos do teach the vowels. Here is the link for our video lesson: http://www.thaipod101.com/2013/09/06/thai-alphabet-made-easy-1-maaw-maa-naaw-n%C7%94u-and-long-a/#comment-44764 . Also the page that you linked to does include the vowel เออ or เ-ิ , but it is romanized with əə instead of "ooe". Hope that helps.

Have a nice day.

Parisa
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