tone name

{{Short description|Names assigned to tone types in tonal languages}}

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

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• 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 ({{zh|c=平|p=píng}}), rising ({{zh|c=上|p=shǎng}}), departing ({{zh|c=去|p=qù}}), and entering ({{zh|c=入|p=rù}}), each split into yin ({{zh|c=陰|p=yīn}}) and yang ({{zh|c=陽|p=yáng}}) registers, and the categories of high and low syllables.

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• 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.Frankfurter, Oscar. Elements of Siamese grammar with appendices. American Presbyterian mission press, 1900 [https://books.google.com/books?id=h6U6AAAAMAAJ] (Full text available on Google Books) The table shows an example of both the phonemic tones and their phonetic realization, in the IPA.

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class=wikitable !Tone!!Thai!!Example!!Phonemic!!Phonetic!!Example meaning in English
mid	สามัญ	นา	{{IPA|/nāː/}}	{{IPA|[näː˧]}}	paddy field
low	เอก	หน่า	{{IPA|/nàː/}}	{{IPA|[näː˩]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˩]}}	(a nickname)
falling	โท	หน้า	{{IPA|/nâː/}}	{{IPA|[näː˦˩]}}	face, front
high	ตรี	น้า	{{IPA|/náː/}}	{{IPA|[näː˦˥]}} or {{IPA|[näː˥]}}	maternal aunt or uncle younger than one's mother
rising	จัตวา	หนา	{{IPA|/nǎː/}}	{{IPA|[näː˨˩˦]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˦]}}	thick