Re: THEORY: Tone marking (Was Re: THEORY: Mandarin vowel phonology)

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> Van: Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett@...>
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
> Onderwerp: Tone marking (Was Re: THEORY: Mandarin vowel phonology)
> Datum: woensdag 13 oktober 1999 10:27
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> It was invented by Yuen Ren Chao, and it's a tonal-spelling system,
> which hard-codes the tone into each syllable using special spelling
> conventions instead of leaving it as an easily-lost diacritic.
> Thus, ma1 = "ma", ma2 = "mar" (GR uses -l instead of -r for
retroflexion),
> ma3 = "maa", ma4 = "mah".  It's not as simple as "suffix -r, double,
suffix -h",
> though.
> <<<<<<
> There's another natlang that does that in romanisation, I can't think of
the
> name of it off the top of my head, (Hmoob-something?).
I once read a Lonely Planet book (a little one, you know them) about
minority languages in Thailand. One of those languages used q,x, etc. for
marking tones. I forgot the name.