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Names assigned to tone types in tonal languages

In tonal languages, tone names are the names given to the tones these languages use.

Pitch contours of the four Mandarin tones

In contemporary standard Chinese (Mandarin), the tones are numbered from 1 to 4. They are descended from but not identical to the historical four tones of Middle Chinese, namely level (Chinese: ; pinyin: píng), rising (; shǎng), departing (; ), and entering (; ), each split into yin (; yīn) and yang (; yáng) registers, and the categories of high and low syllables.

Northern Vietnamese (non-Hanoi) tones as uttered by a male speaker in isolation.[1]

Standard Vietnamese has six tones, known as ngang, sắc, huyền, hỏi, ngã, and nặng tones.

Thai has five phonemic tones: mid, low, falling, high and rising, sometimes referred to in older reference works as rectus, gravis, circumflexus, altus and demissus, respectively.[2] The table shows an example of both the phonemic tones and their phonetic realization, in the IPA.

Thai language tone chart Tone Thai Example Phonemic Phonetic Example meaning in English mid สามัญ นา /nāː/ [näː˧] paddy field low เอก หน่า /nàː/ [näː˩] or [näː˨˩] (a nickname) falling โท หน้า /nâː/ [näː˦˩] face, front high ตรี น้า /náː/ [näː˦˥] or [näː˥] maternal aunt or uncle younger than one's mother rising จัตวา หนา /nǎː/ [näː˨˩˦] or [näː˨˦] thick
  1. ^ Nguyễn, Văn Lợi; Edmondson, Jerold A. (1998), "Tones and voice quality in modern northern Vietnamese: Instrumental case studies", Mon-Khmer Studies, 28: 1–18
  2. ^ Frankfurter, Oscar. Elements of Siamese grammar with appendices. American Presbyterian mission press, 1900 [1] (Full text available on Google Books)

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