Thursday 18 October 2012

PHONETIC ALPHABET


A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are substituted for letters. For example, the word "Navy" would be "November Alfa Victor Yankee" when spelled in the phonetic alphabet. This practice helps to prevent confusion between similar sounding letters, such as "m" and "n", and to clarify communications that may be garbled during transmission.



The words chosen to represent some letters have changed since the phonetic alphabet was introduced. When these changes occur, they are made by international agreement. The current phonetic alphabet was adopted in 1957. 




Examples of the Thai phonetic alphabet 




 Gor Gai is the first letter of the Thai alphabet



This is the first Thai consonant. It is pronounced "Gor Gai". We add a word with the letter to make it easier. When you say the word, you should it should be gor gai.

The word "gor" has no meaning. It's a consonant and need to be mixed with other consonants and vowels to create a meaningful word.

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