• acchariya@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    In practical speech though, the tones get reduced to something like 2-3.

    My opinion on why Thai shows up this way is that pronouns and articles are often omitted, and a lot of meaning comes from very short end of sentence particles, and different vocabulary for different registers.