Editing Tone name

{{Short description|Names assigned to tone types in tonal languages}}
In [[tonal language]]s, '''tone names''' are the names given to the [[tone (linguistics)|tone]]s these languages use.

== Chinese ==
[[Image:Pinyin Tone Chart.svg|thumb|115px|Pitch contours of the four Mandarin tones]]
In contemporary [[standard Chinese]] (Mandarin), the tones are numbered from 1 to 4. They are descended from but not identical to the historical  '''[[four tones (Middle Chinese)|four tones]]''' of [[Middle Chinese]], namely ''level'' ({{zh|c=平|p=píng}}), ''rising'' ({{zh|c=上|p=shǎng<!--This is the correct tone. See the main article.-->|labels=no}}), ''departing'' ({{zh|c=去|p=qù|labels=no}}), and ''[[entering tone|entering]]'' ({{zh|c=入|p=rù|labels=no}}), each split into ''yin'' ({{zh|c=陰|p=yīn|labels=no}}) and ''yang'' ({{zh|c=陽|p=yáng|labels=no}}) [[Register (phonology)|registers]], and the categories of ''high'' and ''low'' syllables.
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== Vietnamese ==
[[Image:Vietnamese tone northern.svg|thumb|250px|Northern Vietnamese (non-Hanoi) tones as uttered by a male speaker in isolation.<ref>{{citation |last1=Nguyễn |first1=Văn Lợi |author-link1=Nguyễn Văn Lợi |last2=Edmondson |first2=Jerold A. |author-link2=Jerold A. Edmondson |year=1998 |title=Tones and voice quality in modern northern Vietnamese: Instrumental case studies |journal=[[Mon-Khmer Studies]] |volume=28 |pages=1–18}}</ref>]]

Standard Vietnamese has [[Vietnamese phonology#Six-tone analysis|six tones]], known as ngang, sắc, huyền, hỏi, ngã, and nặng tones.
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== 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
|-
|mid||สามัญ|| นา ||{{IPA|/nāː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˧]}}||''paddy field''
|-
|low||เอก|| หน่า ||{{IPA|/nàː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˩]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˩]}}||''(a nickname)''
|-
|falling||โท|| หน้า ||{{IPA|/nâː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˦˩]}}||''face'', ''front''
|-
|high||ตรี|| น้า ||{{IPA|/náː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˦˥]}} or {{IPA|[näː˥]}}||''maternal aunt or uncle younger than one's mother''
|-
|rising||จัตวา|| หนา ||{{IPA|/nǎː/}}||{{IPA|[näː˨˩˦]}} or {{IPA|[näː˨˦]}}||''thick''
|}

==See also==
*[[Tone letter]]
*[[Tone number]]
*[[Four tones (Middle Chinese)|Archaic]] & [[Four tones|modern four tones]] in Chinese

== References ==
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[[Category:Tone (linguistics)]]
[[Category:Linguistics terminology]]
[[Category:Chinese language]]
[[Category:Vietnamese language]]