Hello Mary and Thanh,
Thank you very much for your help Thanh, yes you explain right. Thanks so much for your help. We wish you all a good progress in learning Thai.
Cheer,
Parisa
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Mary Kelly: " ั" is a vowel not a tonal mark, when being combined with consonant "ว" it becomes diphthong articulated as "ua", as far as I understand :)
Was the tonal mark wrong on the word "hua" in the phrase "rot nahm dum hua"? Shouldn't the mark be the rising one (shaped like a bowl) ?
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Thank you for the kind feedback Mike! We'll be updating these word-list pages with some new exciting features too, so stay tuned!
Awesome thanks!