Tones of Taiwanese: Difference between revisions

'''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 !! [[MTL]] !! Example

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|1 || dark level ({{gs|ym-pviaa|陰平}}) || [[high tone|high]] || 55 || af || {{gs|say|獅}}

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|2 || rising ({{gs|siorng|上}}) || [[shouting tone|shouting]] || 51 || ar || {{gs|hor|虎}}

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|3 || dark departing ({{gs|ym-khix|陰去}}) || [[low tone|low falling]] || 31 || ax || {{gs|pax|豹}}

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|4 || dark entering ({{gs|ym-jip|陰入}}) || [[short tones|low short]] || 3ʔ || aq || {{gs|piq|鱉}}, {{gs|aq|鴨}}

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|5 || light level ({{gs|ioong-pviaa|陽平}}) || [[curving tone]] || 24 || aa || {{gs|hiim|熊}}, {{gs|guu|牛}}

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|7 || light departing ({{gs|ioong-khix|陽去}}) || [[basic tone]] || 33 || a || {{gs|chviu|象}}

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|8 || light entering ({{gs|ioong-jip|陽入}}) || high short || 5ʔ || ah || {{gs|lok|鹿}}

* tone names "level, rising, departing, entering" or "pviaa, siorng, khix, jip" are from the ''[[suosefng]]'' of Middle Chinese

* 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) ]]

== See also ==

* [[Table of all MLT finals]]

* [[long tone]], [[short tone]]

* [[Tone sandhi]]

* [[Reduplication]]

* [[TL]]