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'''Tones of Taiwanese'''. The traditional tone class categorization, named after the tones of [[Middle Chinese]]: | '''Tones of Taiwanese'''. The traditional tone class categorization, named after the [[suosefng|tones]] of [[Middle Chinese]]: | ||
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!Tone <br>number !! Name !! Description !! Pitch !! [[ | !Tone <br>number !! Name !! Description !! Pitch !! [[MLT]] !! Example | ||
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|1 || dark level ({{gs|ym-pviaa|陰平}}) || [[high tone|high]] || 55 || af || {{gs|say|獅}} | |1 || dark level ({{gs|ym-pviaa|陰平}}) || [[high tone|high]] || 55 || af || {{gs|say|獅}} | ||
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|8 || light entering ({{gs|ioong-jip|陽入}}) || high short || 5ʔ || ah || {{gs|lok|鹿}} | |8 || light entering ({{gs|ioong-jip|陽入}}) || high short || 5ʔ || ah || {{gs|lok|鹿}} | ||
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* "level, rising, departing, entering" or "pviaa, siorng, khix, jip" | * tone names "level, rising, departing, entering" or "pviaa, siorng, khix, jip" are from the ''[[suosefng]]'' of Middle Chinese | ||
* Not shown: Tone 6 (pitch 22/33) is not widely used. [[Logkarng-khviw|Lukang accent]] still has the 6th tone, which has merged with the 2nd and 7th tones in other dialects of Taiwanese. Tone 9 (pitch 35) is used in [[Japanese loanwords]] and contractions. See [[TL]] for diacritics. | * Not shown: Tone 6 ("light rising", pitch 22/33) is not widely used. [[Logkarng-khviw|Lukang accent]] still has the 6th tone, which has merged with the 2nd and 7th tones in other dialects of Taiwanese. Tone 9 (pitch 35) is used in [[Japanese loanwords]] and contractions. See [[TL]] for diacritics. | ||
[[File:Taiwanese-8Tones.ogg|thumb|none|[[hogzofng|svaf]], {{x|tea}}, [[khox]], {{x|khoaq}}, [[laang]], {{x|øea}}, [[phvi]], {{x|tit}} (shirt, short, pants, wide, person, short, nose, straight; 衫 短 褲 闊 人 矮 鼻 直) ]] | [[File:Taiwanese-8Tones.ogg|thumb|none|[[hogzofng|svaf]], {{x|tea}}, [[khox]], {{x|khoaq}}, [[laang]], {{x|øea}}, [[phvi]], {{x|tit}} (shirt, short, pants, wide, person, short, nose, straight; 衫 短 褲 闊 人 矮 鼻 直) ]] | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Table of all finals | * [[Table of all MLT finals]] | ||
* [[long tone]], [[short tone]] | * [[long tone]], [[short tone]] | ||
* [[Tone sandhi]] | * [[Tone sandhi]] | ||