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	Introduction to Tonal Languages
		Tone languages are languages that use pitch in this way.(Sloat 73).
		Tone languages can be classified as belonging to one of two categories on the basis of the shape of their pitch phonemes: register tone languages and contour tone languages.
		A variation on the tonal language concept is the pitch accent language.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/language/tonal.html (1480 words)

	Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In cases such as these, the classification of a language as tonal may depend on the researcher's interpretation of what tone is. For instance, the Burmese language has phonetic tone, but each of its three tones is accompanied by a distinctive phonation (creaky, murmured, or plain vowels).
		However, the Indo-European language Punjabi is clearly a tonal language, where the tones arose as a reinterpretation of different consonant series in terms of pitch, as happened in most of the Chinese languages.
		As a result, when one combines tone with sentence prosody, the absolute pitch of a high tone at the end of a clause may be lower than that of a low tone at the beginning, because average pitch tends to decrease with time in a process called downdrift.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_(linguistics) (2740 words)

	Tonal language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hausa is tonal, although it is a distant relative of the Semitic languages, which are not.
		Because the transcriptions of tonal languages in the Latin alphabet were often devised by untrained Europeans, who were largely unfamiliar with the phenomenon, most official spellings of such languages today simply omit all indication of tonality.
		Since tonal languages often have long and short vowels, the analogy to teaching music, with both pitch and rhythm, is especially close.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tonal_language (1370 words)

	Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question.
		Mandarin has a contour tone system, where the distinguishing feature of the tones are their shifts in pitch (their pitch shapes or contours, such as rising, falling, dipping, or peaking) rather than simply their pitch relative to each other as in a register tone system.
		(Tones, according to the linguistic definition, are found on every syllable in tone languages.) This pitch accent is mostly used prosodically, but also to differentiate two-syllable words depending on their morphological structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_%28tonal_language%29 (2740 words)

	critique of the GR
		In Table I, the tone marks of pinyin are moved from the top of vowels to right-hand upper corner of syllables, and represented by superscript numerals 1 through 4, because the four tones are also popularly referred to as Tone 1 through Tone 4.
		Tone transcendence concerns the situation in which syllables in a tonal language do not carry particular tones.
		Though tones are marked on the syllables, the language is written as a non-tonal language at grammatical levels.
	www.pinyinology.com /gr/gr2.html (3139 words)

	Tone (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tone is defined by an interaction between the "class" of the initial consonant of a syllable, a possible "tone mark" above it, and the nature of the final vowel or consonant.
		A listener interprets the tone of a syllable not based on the "note" in which it is "sung", but rather based on how the tonal contour of the syllable ''varies'' with respect to the base intonation of the utterance as a whole.
		Because many speakers of non-tonal languages confuse musical tone with tone contour, it may be assumed (incorrectly) that a tonal language is incompatible with singing.
	goc.subdomain.de /Tonal_language (2856 words)

	Tonal language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Some language groups that contain tonal languages Sino-Tibetan (to which Chinese belongs: many Chinese are tonal) Austro-Asiatic (which includes Vietnamese) the Indo-European (which includes Punjabi) the Bantu languages (most languages in Sub-Saharan Africa Bantu) and the Khoisan languages.
		In tonal languages tone is an integral part of a minimal pairs exist in the language distinguished only a change of tone.
		These tones can lead to one syllable having five meanings depending on the tone with it so that "ma1 ma5" glosses "mother" "ma2" as "hemp" "ma3" as "horse" as "scold" and "ma5" at the end a sentence acts as an interrogative particle.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tone_language (644 words)

	Tonal language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In tonal languages, the tone is an integral part of a word; minimal pairs exist in the language distinguished only by a change of tone.
		These tones can lead to one syllable, "ma" having five meanings, depending on the tone associated with it, so that "ma1 ma5"glosses as "mother", "ma2" as "hemp", "ma3" as "horse", "ma4" as "scold", and "ma5" at the end of a sentence acts as aninterrogative particle.
		This differentiation in tone allows a speaker to create the (not entirely grammatical) sentence "ma1 ma5ma4 ma3 de5 ma2 ma5?", or "Is Mother scolding the horse's hemp?" (Māma mà mǎ de má ma?妈妈骂马的麻吗？), where the series of "ma"s are differentiated in meaning onlyby their tone.
	www.therfcc.org /tonal-language-19487.html (553 words)

	The Thai Language
		A common example of the difficulty of tones in Thai is the word mai, whose meanings include "wood", "not", "silk", "burn", and "new" depending on what tone is used to pronounce it.
		The rising tone is approximately similar to the inflection used in English to indicate a question, the falling tone roughly like calling someone's name from far away.
		Tones on this website are indicated using tone marks on the first vowel of each syllable.
	www.into-asia.com /thai_language (522 words)

	Tonal language
		A tonal language is one in which changes in pitch lead to changes in word meaning.
		Some language groups that contain tonal languages include Sino-Tibetan (to which the Chinese languages belong), Austro-Asiatic (which include Thai and Vietnamese), the Bantu languages (almost all languages in Sub-Saharan Africa are Bantu).
		This differentiation in tone allows a speaker to create the (not entirely grammatical) sentence "ma1 ma0 ma4 ma3 de0 ma2 ma0?", or "Is Mother scolding the horse's hemp?", where the series of "ma"s are differentiated in meaning only by their tone.
	www.fastload.org /to/Tonal_language.html (441 words)

	Everything about Common Phrases In Different Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tone 1 is high and level/falling; 2 is medium and rising; 3 is medium and level; 4 is low and falling; 5 is low and rising, 6 is low and level.
		Tone groups are said on a single breath and, as a consequence, are of limited length, more often being on average five words long or lasting roughly two seconds.
		The Gothic language was written in the Gothic alphabet developed by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible in the 4th century.
	wikimiki.org /en/Common+phrases+in+different+languages (9431 words)

	Vietnamese language is sino-tibetan ? - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A language that is non-tonic cannot gain tonic ability if they were just to borrow foreign vocabulary (for example, japanese/korean which is non-tonic but borrows from chinese) because tonic ability is extremely difficult to learn for people whose basic language is non-tonic (just ask european language speakers).
		Just like raising the tone in most european languages to designate a question doesn't imply it is a tonal language because it is still the same word and same meaning.
		Although the Yang-Shu tone depends on the voiced initials, it cannot be ignored or else you'll not have 8 tones in Middle Chinese.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=1782 (2810 words)

	A dictionary of foreign words in Chinese
		Phonetic language is defined as one in which different concepts are primarily represented by distinct phonetic values.
		And the decision for tone is not an easy one, because the foreign language gives no clue to which tone to take for the loan word.
		A policy for tones in this dictionary is that neighboring syllables do not carry same tone, to ensure equal opportunities of employment for all the four tones in transliterating foreign words.
	www.pinyinology.com /fwd/foreign_words.html (2279 words)

	Tone (tonal language) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I was reading a book about how people use the internet and it said that the average search length has gone from 1.1 to 2.8 words in the last few years.
		In a BBC online article about the need to promote non-European languages in British schools, Dr Anderson of Goldsmiths College is quoted as follows: It's a question of status - the message has been that these languages are less important....
		In language discussions, results taken from search engines are often quoted as examples to show whether something is used as a form or to compare forms to see which is more common, etc. GoogleBlogoscoped has run 27,000 words from a...
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Tone_(tonal_language).html (624 words)

	Tone Rules for Thai Language
		To a foreign student, it would seem that the Thai language is made up of groups of words that change in meaning depending on their tone.
		This is an emphatic and heavily accented tone with a falling inflection and is similar to the tone used in English to denote emphasis.
		It should be noted that the tone applies to a syllable only so that in a polysyllabic word each syllable may and often does have a different tone.
	www.learningthai.com /tones (475 words)

	Vong
		Inspired by tonal languages like Chinese and Vietnamese, I have created an art language that is tonal.
		In Vong, there are three tones: the even tone, the rising tone, and the falling tone.
		Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
	purl.oclc.org /net/vong (597 words)

	Hitchhiking Vietnam: Travel Tips
		That means you MUST arrive speaking more of the native language than the average native speaks of yours.
		Rule #7 If you are learning a tonal language and play a musical instrument, consider "playing" the tone behind the word as you say it.
		Dictionaries are alphabetical except that they treat each tone as a separate entity - for example, you'll be running through several iterations of MA depending on the accent mark over the A. I'd like to introduce here a useful language tool that I developed over the years on the road.
	www.pbs.org /hitchhikingvietnam/travel/lang.html (1180 words)

	Transparent Language - Chinese Language Learning
		Mandarin is the most widely-spoken form of Chinese and is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
		Within each of these groups, many variations in spoken language occur and it is said that speakers from one area may not understand those who live only a few miles away.
		Chinese is a tonal language, which means that a given word can change meaning depending on its tone.
	www.learn-chinese-language-software.com /overview.htm (1121 words)

	Tone (linguistics)
		tone - (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
		Amazon.com: Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese Dialects (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)...
		the quality of a person's voice: "he began in a conversational tone" (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages: "the Beijing...
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Tone_%28linguistics%29 (258 words)

	tone - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Example: "The general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"
		Phrases that include tone: tone deaf, tone language, tone color, tone down, touch tone, more...
		Words similar to tone: timbre, tint, feel, feeling, flavor, look, note, quality, shade, smell, spirit, step, strengthen, timber, tincture, toned, tonicity, toning, tonus, atmosphere, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=tone&ls=a (579 words)

	Halfbakery: Tonal Lego Language
		Add the one by eight block and all the permutations that the flat and beveled pieces added, and you can see why the tonal system needs to be systemized (systemised?) and implemented.
		I think the word permutation was used here as "an ordered arrangement of the numbers or terms of a set" which is an acceptable definition in terms of language usage.
		Not the same as the precise one I was taught in Stats, but Mathematics is not the only language...
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Tonal_20Lego_20Language (1691 words)

	Vietnamese Language Travel Guides
		Vietnamese, Vietnam's official language, is a tonal language.
		There are other languages spoken such as Chinese, Khmer, Cham and other languages spoken by tribes inhabiting the mountainous regions.
		Since Vietnam is located in the heart of South East Asia, its culture and language have been influenced by the neighboring cultures, especially Chinese.
	www.paradissa.com /categories/Language/4/781/content/0 (364 words)

	List of common phrases in various languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
		This is a list of common phrases in various languages, for a general overview of ten to fifteen basic phrases in all of the major world languages, and certain interesting minor ones.
		This page is intended as an introduction to the morphological and syntactic (and sometimes phonetic) comparison between different languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_phrases_in_different_languages (859 words)

	sciforums.com - Thailand, where I live
		It is a tonal language, meaning the same 'sound' to a speaker of a non tonal language (eg English) has five different pronunciations according to the tone used - high, mid, low, rising and falling.
		In other words, you not only need to know the sound of the word, but the tone also.
		The language is written in it's own script, which if I remember right did evolve from Sanskrit, though I would rather linguistic experts comment further on this aspect
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=9911 (596 words)

	simply-thai.com-Thai Language and Alphabet
		Originally they represented separate sounds, but over the years the distinction between those sounds was lost and the letters were used instead to indicate tones.
		Thai is a tonal language with 5 tones.
		The tone of a syllable is determined by a combination of the class of consonant, the type of syllable (open or closed), the tone marker and the length of the vowel.
	www.simply-thai.com /Thailand_page_Thai_Alphabet.htm (492 words)

	Vietnamese language is sino-tibetan ? - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Thai also has tones, so do many other languages spoken in southern China.
		'Tones' mentioned here are NOT pitch differences relative to other syllables, but the pitch differences to the syllable itself.
		Note: The Yang-Shu are different in pitch regulation from the other tones.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=1782&st=0 (2810 words)

	Julian Missig
		The question seems simple: If language is processed in the left hemisphere, but tones are processed in the right hemisphere, then where are tonal languages (such as Mandarin or Cantonese) processed?
		I suggest that future research needs to look specifically at whether or not there is a separation between tonal processing for language and tonal processing for music.
		In this paper I investigate several phenomena in Implicit Memory and the False Feedback paradigm which would indicate there is a possibility that implanted false memories and implicit memories of a real situation could be retained separately and thus actually be at odds with one another.
	julian.missig.org (977 words)

	Pitching Aids -- Recommendations and Resources
		''Pitch,'' or ''tone* of voice'', refers to variation of tone in tonal language, and in languages with pitch accent.
		Pitch is the property of a sound or musical tone measured by its perceived frequency Especially when this is exactly what Pitch (music) is?
		Pitch in music refers to the musical tuning system used, and the frequency used as a pitch standard Hyacinth 21:24, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Nevermind Catherine.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/118/pitching-aids.html (1336 words)

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