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! Tone !! Example !! Meaning | ! Tone !! Example !! Meaning | ||
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| High || {{xl|hiaf}} || there | | 1. High || {{xl|hiaf}} || there | ||
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| Shouting || {{xl|zar}} || early | | 2. Shouting || {{xl|zar}} || early | ||
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| Low Falling || {{xl|zhaix}} || vegetable | | 3. Low Falling || {{xl|zhaix}} || vegetable | ||
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| Curving || {{xl|hii}} || fish | | 5. Curving || {{xl|hii}} || fish | ||
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| Basic || {{xl|si}} || is | | 7. Basic || {{xl|si}} || is | ||
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The tone indicators always come to the right of the vowel, with one exception. To indicate the curving tone of a compound vowel, normally its last letter is repeated. But when there is an ''a'', it is the one repeated, even when it doesn't sit at the very end of the vowel. For example: {{x|gaau}}, {{xl|jidthaau}}, {{xl|na'aau}}. | The tone indicators always come to the right of the vowel, with one exception. To indicate the curving tone of a compound vowel, normally its last letter is repeated. But when there is an ''a'', it is the one repeated, even when it doesn't sit at the very end of the vowel. For example: ''{{x|gaau}}'', ''{{xl|jidthaau}}'', ''{{xl|na'aau}}''. | ||
==== Short tones ==== | ==== Short tones ==== | ||