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Re: HELP: Hiksi Tone Spelling--ENTER AND WIN!!

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Thursday, July 18, 2002, 1:36
Interesting; I may submit if I can think of anything.
What vowels are there?  Do you have specific latin characters assigned
to them?
-M

JS Bangs wrote:
[snip]
> > Here's the goods (this has been posted with little change before): > > There are six tones in Hiksi, plus a vowel length distinction that's > relevant. For short vowels there is a simple two-way distinction: High > tone v. low tone. For long vowels all six tones come into play: > > Low (22) > Rising (24) > Mid (33) > High (55) > High-falling (453) > Low-falling (231) > > (The numbers in parentheses indicate the general shape of the tone > contours on a 5-point scale) > > All words contain a tone break, before which are "upper" tones and after > which are "lower" tones. Various morphological processes will move the > tone break and shift the tones from lower to upper, according to these > correspondences: > > Short Low > Hi > Long Low > Rising > Mid > High > Low-fall > Hi-fall > > [snip]