Re: Marking tones in conlangs

Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Joseph B. wrote:
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>>I'm curious to know how others here mark tones in any tonal conlangs they
>>have created.
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> I have no tonal conlangs in my bag yet,


Like Isaac I have no tonal conlangs of my own (yet), but you may be
interested in the way James Carter did it for his loglang _gua\spi_

Number	 Sound 	 	Symbols
1 	High-even 	- 	-
2 	Rising		/ 	/
3 	Down-up 	| 	*
4 	Falling 	\ 	!
5 	Up-down 	^ 	@
6 	Low-even 	= 	%


Of the two sets of symbols, James says: "The first set of symbols shown,
ascii characters, is preferred but the second set can substitute on a
manual typewriter".

The symbols precede the syllable AIUI.

In Mario Pei's "The World's Chief Languages" (1949), he shows Mandarin
tones in a similar way, using:
-  first tone (high level)
/  second tone (rising)
√  third tone (low dipping) [square root symbol]
\  fourth tone (falling)

So, for example, "I write" is: /wo √hsie ('ASCII Pinyin' wo2 xie3)

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