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=== Tone === | === Tone === | ||
Modern Standard Thean has 9 phonemic tones (shamelessly stolen from Kam): | Modern Standard Thean has 9 phonemic tones (shamelessly stolen from Kam): | ||
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! Rom. | |||
! IPA | |||
! English name | |||
! Example | |||
! Description | |||
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| '''ā''' | |||
| /˥/ (55) | |||
| high | |||
| ''kā'' /kɑ˥/ 'short' | |||
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|- | |||
| '''a''' | |||
| /˧/ (33) | |||
| mid | |||
| ''ka'' /kɑ˧/ 'to take' | |||
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| '''a̱''' | |||
| /˩/ (11) | |||
| low | |||
| ''ka̱'' /kɑ˩/ 'to exhale' | |||
| Often marked by vocal fry. | |||
|- | |||
| '''a̗''' | |||
| /˩˥/ (15) | |||
| low-rise | |||
| ''ka̗'' /kɑ˩˥/ 'roof' | |||
| Often begins with vocal fry. May be realized as [˩˦] (14), or even [˨˦] (24) in rapid speech. | |||
|- | |||
| '''á''' | |||
| /˧˥/ (35) | |||
| mid-rise | |||
| ''ká'' /kɑ˧˥/ 'fencepost' | |||
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| '''à''' | |||
| /˥˩/ (51) | |||
| high-fall | |||
| ''kà'' /kɑ˥˩/ 'crow, raven; (ideophone) caw' | |||
| May be realized as [˥˧] (53). | |||
|- | |||
| '''a̖''' | |||
| /˧˩/ (31) | |||
| mid-fall | |||
| ''ka̖'' /kɑ˧˩/ 'finger' | |||
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| '''a̬''' | |||
| /˨˩˨/ (212) | |||
| dip | |||
| ''ka̬'' /kɑ˨˩˨/ 'oil, fat, grease' | |||
| Often realized as [˩˨] (12) in rapid speech. | |||
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| '''â''' | |||
| /˧˦˧/ (343) | |||
| peak | |||
| ''kâ'' /kɑ˧˦˧/ 'to imprint, to stamp' | |||
| May be [˨˧˨] (232). Often realized as [˦˩] (41) or [˦˨] (42) in rapid speech. | |||
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==== Tone diachronics ==== | |||
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