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But there are differences. I found this picture online, which has two proverbs in Thai and Lao with the Funny that’s what I do I pet dogs I watch star wars and I know things 2023 shirt moreover I will buy this pronunciation added, so you can spot the differences: Thai and Lao have different alphabets, as you can see. The letters look similar and the system is the same more or less. Lao is a lot more rounder and resembles Thai handwriting sometimes. Also, Lao is written more phonetical than Thai. Thai has a lot of silent letters, especially in loanwords. The above word for son is written บุตร but pronounced just [bùt], the r is silent. If the same word also exists in Lao, it would be written just actually. Lao spelling is like regularized and simplified Thai. But many words are written the same. If you already know one of those alphabets, learning the other one won’t take long.
Pronunciation is different indeed. Many words do sound the Funny that’s what I do I pet dogs I watch star wars and I know things 2023 shirt moreover I will buy this same, but some words are simplified. Thai sometimes can have initial clusters like tr-, kl-, bl-, kʰw- for instance. These would be t-, k-, b-, but kʰw- in Lao. They don’t pronounce these second consonants and don’t write them either (except for -w-). In the picture above you can see that the second word, ‘teacher’ is pronounced [kʰruː] in Thai, but [kʰúː] in Lao, so the -r- got lost. Actually most Thai don’t pronounce these second consonants either in colloquial speech. Also, while Thai has [r], Lao doesn’t. Words with r- in Thai are usually pronounced either with l- or with h- in Lao. So the sentence “We love the school.” is [raw rák roːŋ riə̯n] in Thai, but [háw hak hóːŋ híə̯n] in Lao. Also, while Thai has two j/ch-like sound [ʨ] and [ʨʰ], Lao only has [ʦ] and [ʦʰ] and many of the [ʨʰ]-words in Thai are pronounced with [s] in Lao, the words for elephant and tea, respectively, are [ʨʰáːŋ] and [ʨʰaː] in Thai, but [saːŋ] and [sáː] in Lao.
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