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As an abugida versus an alphabet, Thai and English are not that different in structural conception, though Thai has almost double the number of consonants.
by contingencies 9y ago
As an abugida versus an alphabet, Thai and English are not that different in structural conception, though Thai has almost double the number of consonants.
- spraak 9y agoNot that different in structural composition...? I don't follow what you mean. I do speak some Thai, too
- peteretep 9y agoThe op means: the letters map vaguely to the sounds used to produce them. Also speaking some Thai, I'm like you unsure this is any kind of useful insight. More useful would be that there's enough Latin alphabet signs in Thailand that all literate Thais can already sound-out English, even if they don't understand it.
- contingencies 9y agoI meant that it's not much of a conceptual jump for people with native literacy in abugidas to an English game like scrabble, since the writing system is already really rather similar.
- dspig 9y agoand I guess because many of the words are not ones a native speaker would know anyway and are only learnt for the game.