Inherent vowel
An example of a word in Thai with two or more syllables an an inherent vowel is สวัสดี, which would be written as swàtdee without spaces and s-wàt-dee with spaces, but it must be pronounced as sà-wàt-dee because even though the first syllable is only written as s, in must be spoken as sà because consonants may not be spoken without any vowels.