Re: tonal languages
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 9, 2003, 3:33 |
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Douglas Koller, Latin & French scripsit:
> Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You're gonna get all technical on my ass,
> are you. For me, and I believe it's the conventional tone numbering
> for Taiwanese, tone 4 is mid-clipped, in contrast to tone 8 which is
> high-clipped.
Oh, OK, no problem. Sounds like you're numbering the four yin tones 1-4
and the yang tones 5-8, with 6 (my 4) merged with 2 (my 3). So, here's
my Universal Tone Map. U=universal, MC=Middle Chinese, M=Mandarin,
C=Cantonese, T=Taiwanese, S=Shanghainese.
ping shang qu ru
high U1 M1 C1 T1 S1 U3 C2 U5 C3 T3 U7 C1/C3 T4
unsplit MC1 MC3 M3 T2 S3 MC5 M4 S3 MC7
low U2 M2 C4 T5 S2 U4 C5 U6 U8 C6 T7 U8 C6 T8
> need to consult a font-of-all-wisdom dictionary, which of course,
> would be at home, and report back in tomorrow.
By all means.
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