Changes to 2nd edition of the Consonant Cards
NOTE: These will be available for sale in 2025
There are both substantive and subtle changes to the Thai Alphabet Cards. For the Thai Consonants, we add the ten numbers (0-9) as ten additional cards, and then on the consonant cards themselves, the significant changes are:
- Multiple English Transliteration / Transcription (Haas/AUA, IPA, Paiboon)
- Multiple font (typeface) variations (JS Thanaporn, JS Sirium, Purisa, JS Chanok, JS Chawlewhieng)
- Improvements to the tone graph, and
- Indicating the tone rule for the class inside the image for the consonant (an attempt at a visual mnemonic for tone class rules/tone class membership)
What has not changed (and remain from the original edition) includes:
- The Sammy Diagram for the manner and place of articulation of the consonant sound;
- The Thai consonant name;
- The writing order and direction;
- An indicator of a dead or live consonant (triangle or circle);
- Inside the dead/live indicator, the sound for the consonant when it is in final consonant position;
- An indicator of the tone rules for the class (mid-tone for long vowels, low-tone for short vowels);
- The name of the class to which it belongs; and
- The number of the card (in the deck order)
