So I’ve been meaning to update my Thai (ภาษาไทย) -> Devanagari (संस्कृता) chart for a while and three things seemed to collide tonight which made me finally start on it. 1: I have a Spanish final tomorrow which I should be studying for but am being lazy 2: I found this great chart on Wikipedia and figured I would just steal it and expand on it 3: I’ve been reading a book about the Northern Thai language and Lanna script (ล้านนา) in advance of a class I am taking next term.

So anyway, I reworked the chart some and this time added in mappings for the Lanna language. I should offer this out with a caveat that I am still learning the Lanna language and may have made a mistake, please let me know if you notice anything. I still need to rework my chart of the mouth and a few other things, I think that I want to add in mappings for more languages first tho … maybe Lao, Cambodian and Burmese.

You will need to download the LN TILOK font to properly see the Lanna text. Alternatively you can download a jpeg version of the chart.

This is a great article on how to properly pronounce the Sanskrit letters. Thai speakers should note that the way that many of the letters are pronounced is different from the way that their Thai representation is generally pronounced in central Thai.