In the study of Thai-Chinese transliteration(referring to the Thai-Chinese Dictionary, The Foreign Name Handbook, and The World of Country Maps), it is found that some Thai place's names derived from Chinese language, but have different versions of pronunciation due to dialect language usage. The Thai-Chinese Dictionary transliteration, based on Chaozhou dialect, sound and pronunciation are quite different from Foreign Name Handbook and The World of Country Maps transliterations which are based on Mandarin pronunciation. To be more precise, there are [-p], [-t], and [-k] consonants in Thai language but there are only [-p] and [-k] consonants in Chaozhou dialect. When a Thai word which ends with [-t] sound, Chaozhou uses the [-k] sound instead. However, because there are no similar consonant sounds in Mandarin, Thai words must be uttered the same tone as existing words.

1. 研究背景
 2. 泰語地名簡介
 3. 泰語通名漢字譯寫整理與研究
 4. 泰語通名漢字譯寫綜合表
 5. 結語

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