The Vietnamese Consonant transcription into Thai using linguistic contrastive analysis

Abstract

This academic article presents guidelines for transcribing Vietnamese consonants into Thai using contrastive linguistic analysis. The study found that Vietnamese and Thai have 17 consonant phonemes that are the same, though eight phonemes in Vietnamese do not occur in Thai. The transcription of Vietnamese consonants into Thai is related to three classes of Thai consonant letters to choose the correct Thai alphabet. In addition, Vietnamese consonant clusters can appear with initial consonant phonemes that cannot occur in Thai. Transcriptions unusually require characters. Finally, some final consonants appear with the same form as the initial but have different phonemes. The initial consonant phonemes will cause transcription errors in the final sound consonants.