- the
distinctive tone
patterns of such a
language are
sometimes called tonemes, by
analogy with phoneme.
Tonal languages are
common in East and Southeast...
- signed, that
differ in only one
phonological element, such as a phoneme,
toneme or chroneme, and have
distinct meanings. They are used to
demonstrate that...
- 欲 /∅/ 精(정) /t͡s/ 照(조) /t͡ɕ/ 淸(청) /t͡sʰ/ 穿(천) /t͡ɕʰ/ 敷(부) /fʰ/ 挹(읍) /ʔ/
Toneme falling mid to
falling mid to
falling mid mid to
falling dipping/ mid mid...
- Thus, the
basic tonemes of Gbe are 'High' and 'Non-High',
where the High
toneme may be
realised as High or
Rising and the Non-High
toneme may be realised...
-
Norwegian dialects (dialekter/ar) are
commonly divided into four main groups, 'Northern Norwegian' (nordnorsk), 'Central Norwegian' (trøndersk), 'Western...
-
Bantu and
other African languages, Zulu is tonal.
There are
three main
tonemes: low, high and falling. Zulu is
conventionally written without any indication...
- is a
toneme that
marks a
replacive morpheme that is also
described as a suprafix. Lex van der
Leeden describes the
language as
having a
toneme pattern...
- pronunciations: The tone "phonemes" in such
languages are
sometimes called tonemes.
Languages such as
English do not have
phonemic tone, but they use intonation...
- ways. The
first is the
spreading of high
tonemes rightwards to the
following words beginning with a low
tonemes, as in ɑbúké 'eyelash' + waŋ 'eye' → abúké...
-
exist African grammatical tone
languages with much more than just two
tonemes, and the
existence of
breathy voiced consonants in the
Nguni and other...
