Interactive Language Toolkit

Learn to read and type Thai

Practise on a real Thai keyboard, and build syllables letter by letter to see how the script fits together. Free, in your browser, no account needed.

  • Standard Kedmanee layout
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Syllable inspector

เรียนไทย

rian thai

“learn Thai”

First syllable, เรียน

Vowel
เ◌ีย
written around
Consonant
ร
ร เรือ · low class
Tone
Mid
เสียงสามัญ

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ก ข ค

Thai keyboard

Type Thai on the standard Kedmanee layout, even if your computer has no Thai keyboard installed. Follow guided words and sentences, or practise your own text.

Where letters sit on a Kedmanee keyboard

  • Dก
  • -ข
  • 8ค
  • 'ง
  • Fด
  • Iร
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ค + ◌า + ย

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How a syllable is assembled

ค low class◌า longย live endingคายkhaai
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