Lam Thai Restaurant
The Spirit of Thailand

A GUIDE TO THAI

Consonants
At the beginning of a word, consonants are generally pronounced as in English except for the following:

g	as in get (not gin)
ng	a single sound which you are familiar with in English at the end of words such as wrong and sing but which also occurs at the beginning of Thai words.
bp	a single sound which is somewhere between b and p. The sound occurs in English words such as speak, sport and sparkling.
dt	a single sound that occurs in the beginning of Thai words. The sound occurs in English in the forms of stop, statue and style.

Vowels
Vowels are pronounced as follows:

a e i o u ah ai ao aow ay ee er oh OO oo oy

as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in as in

ago pen bit cot fun father Thai how sound may fee per go book food boy

Other sounds, however, have no near English equivalent, and you may need to ask our staff to gain a proper idea of
how they should be pronounced.

The following all single sounds, do not pronounce the ‘r’:

eu
eu’a
air’o
er’ee