สารขัณฑ์
Thai edit
Etymology edit
Phono-semantic matching of English Sarkhan, the name of a fictional nation beset by political problems in the 1958 political novel The Ugly American and its sequel Sarkhan, imitated as Thai สาร (sǎa-rá-, “essence, matter, substance; information, news; etc”) + ขัณฑ์ (“part; region; section; etc”).
Pronunciation edit
| Orthographic | สารขัณฑ์ s ā r kʰ ạ ɳ ɖ ʻ | |
| Phonemic | สา-ระ-ขัน s ā – r a – kʰ ạ n | |
| Romanization | Paiboon | sǎa-rá-kǎn |
| Royal Institute | sa-ra-khan | |
| (standard) IPA(key) | /saː˩˩˦.ra˦˥.kʰan˩˩˦/(R) | |