Where Is The List Of The Same Pronunciation With Tone Difference ?

[duiter]

Hi,

Where can I find a list of the same pronunciation of words with tone difference on the Internet

Thanks

[ForumUsername]

I had this problem a week or two ago, so i decided to make my own. Here's a sample

Ka

ขา Rising (Leg)

ข่า Low (Hill tribe)

ค้า High (To engage in trade)

ฆ่า Falling (To kill)

See

สี Rising (Intimate)

สี่ Low (Four)

Ma

หมา Rising (Dog)

ม้า High (Horse)

มา Mid (Come)

[bytebuster]

There's no such list, likewise there is no English dictionary where the words would be grouped based on vowels: bag - beg - big - bog - bug or consonants: bat - cat - fat - hat - mat - rat.

Tone in Thai has as big value as the consonants and vowels. So such a dictionary would be useless.

Good news is that most electronic dictionaries have "did you mean...?" feature that seems to be helpful if you need a particular word.

Edited August 4, 2012 by bytebuster

[Richard W]

There's a reasonable approximation at Reverse Phonetic Transcription . You have to choose the consonant-vowel framework in some undefined scheme (possibly the Thai-Language default scheme), and decide whether vowel length is also being suppressed in the gathering. If you can read the Thai script, it gives you what you need.

For just gathering the words, one of course can use a paper Thai dictionary in a similar fashion - typically there will be the spelling with a high consonant (or equivalent) and one with the low consonant. (Phonetically equivalent consonants are generally close in alphabetic order - final /n/ is the big exception.) For mid consonants, you only have the one initial consonant, but you're much less likely to find a full set of tones. The drawback is that you don't have recordings in a paper dictionary.