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

Paul Bennett scripsit:

> 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?).  There are [quite a few]
> tones, all of which are romanised by following the syllable with a seemingly
> random letter of the alphabet.  The script writes two glyphs per syllable, IIRC
> it's the CV component in the first glyph, with tone and (post?)nasalisation in
> the second glyph.  Someone with the very excellent [Daniels 1996] should be able
> to clarify this a bit better.  I have a copy, but it's not at work.
Hmong.  Also Yi when written in Latin letters.

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