thanh ngã

Vietnamese

Etymology

thanh (“tone”) +‎ ngã (“to fall; to tumble”). The word ngã literally refers to a person's tripping or collapsing, not the "fall" in pitch of a phonetic "falling" tone contour.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰajŋ̟˧˧ ŋaː˦ˀ˥]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰɛɲ˧˧ ŋaː˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰan˧˧ ŋaː˨˩˦]

Noun

thanh ngã

  1. (phonetics) the “broken rising tone” that occurs in the word ngã as a distinctive tone contour in Northern Vietnamese, phonetically marked by a rise in pitch interrupted by a glottal closure, and orthographically marked by the dấu ngã (“tilde”) above a vowel letter

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