Carol Hollinger Quotes

Only A Few Hardy Westerners Learn To Speak Thai And Even Fewer Learn To Read It. At First Glance It Seems Impossible And On Second Glance One Would Much Rather Not. The Alphabet Has Forty-six Wiggly Consonants And Thirty-one Vowels, Some Of Which Are Not Visible To Western Eyes. The Language Is A Mixture Of Pali, Sanskrit, Cambodian, And Is Of The Sino-Tibetan Family And It Seems To Embrace The Rules Of All Even When They Conflict. King Rama Khamheng Devised The Alphabet In The Thirteenth Century And The Writing Shows The Effect Of Having Been Born Full-blown Of Kingly Whim.

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