Editing Taa language (section)

===Tones===
[[Anthony Traill (linguist)|Anthony Traill]] describes four [[tone (linguistics)|tone]]s for the East ǃXoon dialect: high {{IPA|[á]}}, mid {{IPA|[ā]}}, low {{IPA|[à]}}, and mid-falling {{IPA|[â]}}. Patterns for bisyllabic bases include high-high, mid-mid, mid-mid-falling, and low-low. DoBeS describes only two tonemes, high and low, for the West ǃXoon dialect. By analyzing each base as bimoraic, Traill's four tones are mapped onto [áá], [àá], [àà], and [áà]. Unlike Traill, Naumann does not find a four-way contrast on monomoraic grammatical forms in Eastern ǃXoõ data.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Naumann |first=Christfried |title=High and low tone in Taa (ǃXóõ) |url=https://www.academia.edu/34849198 |website=Academia |language=en}}</ref>

In addition to lexical tone, Traill describes East ǃXoon nouns as falling into two tone classes according to the melody induced on concordial morphemes and transitive verbs: either level (Tone Class I) or falling (Tone Class II).{{sfn|Traill|1994}} Transitive object nouns from Tone Class I trigger mid/mid-rising tone in transitive verbs, while Tone Class 2 objects correlate with any tone contour. Naumann finds the same results in the eastern ʼNǀohan dialect.<ref name=":1" />