Live or dead?
Classify endings before choosing a tone.
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มา
comemaa
กิน
eatkinบาท
bahtbàatคะ
polite question particlekháReading tips
A live syllable ends in a long vowel or in m, n, ng, y or w. A dead syllable ends in a stop p, t or k, or a short vowel with a throat closure.
Use the spoken ending, not the last letter’s name. บาท ends in t, so it is dead even though its vowel is long. กิน ends in n, so it is live even though its vowel is short.
ำ, ไ, ใ and เ–า patterns have a nasal or glide ending and are live. Now a tone decision has useful ingredients: initial class, live/dead status, vowel length and any tone mark.
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Classify endings before choosing a tone.

มา
come
กิน
eatบาท
bahtคะ
polite question particle