How do I type Thai on my iPhone?
You type Thai on your iPhone by adding the Thai keyboard in Settings, and Mooteach's typing practice teaches you where every letter sits on it.
- Open Settings, then tap General, then Keyboard.
- Tap Keyboards, then Add New Keyboard.
- Choose Thai from the list.
In any text field, tap the globe key to move to the next keyboard, or touch and hold it to pick one from a list.
What is the Kedmanee layout?
The Kedmanee layout is the standard Thai keyboard, on computers and phones alike.
Thai has more consonants, vowels and marks than a keyboard has keys, so each key carries two characters, and the second one needs shift. On a computer keyboard, the four keys under your left hand's resting position type these consonants:
The iPhone's Thai keyboard has four rows of letters instead of three, and the shift layer holds the rest. Shift lasts for one key: tap shift, then the key, and the keyboard goes back to the first layer.
In what order do you type Thai?
You type Thai in the order it is written, left to right, so a vowel written before the consonant is typed first.
- A vowel written before the consonant is typed first. For bpai, type the vowel, then the consonant.
- A vowel above or below goes in after its consonant, as in dii, and a tone mark comes after that. For mâi, type the vowel, the consonant, then the tone mark.
- Anything written after the consonant comes last. For kâao, type the consonant, the tone mark, then the vowel and the final consonant.
- ไป
- ดี
- ไม่
- ข้าว
Thai vowels shows where every vowel is written, which is the order you type it in.
Do you type spaces between Thai words?
No, you don't type spaces between Thai words, only between phrases and sentences.
Thai writes the words of a sentence together. A space goes between sentences and phrases, roughly where English would put a period or a comma.
How do I type Thai on a computer?
You type Thai on a computer by adding Thai as an input source on a Mac or a language on Windows, which gives you the same layout as your phone.
On a Mac, open System Settings, then Keyboard, and add Thai to the input sources under Text Input. On Windows, open Settings, then Time & language, and add Thai as a language. Both offer Kedmanee, the same layout as the phone.
What should I practice typing first?
You should practice typing short words you already know first, then a greeting, one word at a time as in Mooteach's typing practice.
Say each word out loud as you type it, so the letters and the sound go together.
- เรียน
- สวัสดี
- ภาษาไทย
Is there an app for practicing typing in Thai?
Yes, there is an app for practicing typing in Thai: Mooteach, whose typing practice draws the iPhone's Thai keyboard, so you learn where each letter sits on the keyboard you will really use.
See how Mooteach compares with other Thai apps.
