My daughter's name is Saga in Swedish, which would be something like ซอกะ, but what will the tones be? I would like to write it with [mid][high].

ซอ - would be like 'sor'  I believe...

There are a few 's' is in Thai there might be a more 'beautiful' one to use.  ซ I believe is supposed to be closer to a 'z' then other s letters.  more crisp

Easiest is สกะ, but both tones low

wouldn't ซาก้า sounds more swedish with the Ga sound

My daughter's name is Saga in Swedish, which would be something like ซอกะ, but what will the tones be? I would like to write it with [mid][high].

ซอก๊ะ will give you [mid][high].

I can't think of any examples off hand of Thai words that can give the 'ah' sound within a single syllable, as suggested :ซอ -> sa

 

with a final consonant added, yes.. I can think of a few like บอล, สอน, บอก.. but one thing these have in common is that there is a 'w' sound kind of attached to these , e.g. 'sawn' 'bawl' 'bawk'

 

single syllable with 'อ' following a consonant.. I can think of many examples the sound is "or" such as หมอ, ห่อ, หม้อ, หล่อ, etc.

 

Anyways.. if there is some single consonant words where อ can be 'ah' I would like to know, very curious.

 

Or perhaps the swedish 'a' is like 'aor'  ?

 

 

Isn't สาขา - mid and rising? as the า  rises if the final vowel.. so wouldn't you just change this to สากา and maybe throw in a garan to signal it is a foreign name

Almost imossible to know if one doesn't know the name or hear it said. I assume that you know that the vowel อ is closer to 'or' without the 'r' so if that is how 'a' is said in Swedish ซอ is the first syllable. ก๊ะ is 'ga' with a vowel half the length of the อ of the first syllable, ๊  makes it high tone.  

ซอก๊ะ 

I've used Google Translate to find out how Saga is pronounced in Swedish.  It's not as I'd expected, and rather different from the English pronunciation of "saga".  ซอก๊ะ /sɔɔˑkáʔ/ is probably as close as you can get.

 

 

ok I listened to the name in google translate, you are right, that definitely has the 'or' sound.

Thanks a lot people. That's right, in Swedish A can represent both ɔ and a. I've studied Thai before, but long time ago, so I've forgotten the rules of tone when writing, ซอก๊ะ seems correct, but what happens if the   ๊ is omitted?

Without ๊ you have a low tone.