Thai Letters

Down the Rabbit Hole of ฐ: One Thai Letter’s Journey Across Eurasia

I do love digging through the seams of Thai vocabulary. You sit down, say, to read about the letter — tɔ̌ɔ tǎan, the 16th consonant of the Thai alphabet. And several hours later you find yourself far from Thailand, gleefully time-traveling back and forth across Eurasia. Welcome down the rabbit hole. I started, as one […]

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