Editing Tone name (section)

== Thai ==
[[Thai language#Tones|Thai]] has five phonemic [[tone (linguistics)|tones]]: mid, low, falling, high and rising, sometimes referred to in older reference works as rectus, gravis, circumflexus, altus and demissus, respectively.<ref>Frankfurter, Oscar. Elements of Siamese grammar with appendices. American Presbyterian mission press, 1900 [https://books.google.com/books?id=h6U6AAAAMAAJ] (Full text available on Google Books)</ref> The table shows an example of both the [[phoneme|phonemic]] tones and their [[phonetics|phonetic]] realization, in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]].
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[[File:Thai tones.svg|thumb|250px|Thai language tone chart]]
{| class=wikitable
!Tone!!Thai!!Example!!Phonemic!!Phonetic!!Example meaning in English
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|mid||สามัญ|| นา ||{{IPA|/nāː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˧]}}||''paddy field''
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|low||เอก|| หน่า ||{{IPA|/nàː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˩]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˩]}}||''(a nickname)''
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|falling||โท|| หน้า ||{{IPA|/nâː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˦˩]}}||''face'', ''front''
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|high||ตรี|| น้า ||{{IPA|/náː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˦˥]}} or {{IPA|[näː˥]}}||''maternal aunt or uncle younger than one's mother''
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|rising||จัตวา|| หนา ||{{IPA|/nǎː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˨˩˦]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˦]}}||''thick''
|}