{{Short description|Names assigned to tone types in tonal languages}} In tonal languages, '''tone names''' are the names given to the tones these languages use.
== Chinese == 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''' 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'' ({{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}}) registers, and the categories of ''high'' and ''low'' syllables. {{Clear}}
== 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>|class=skin-invert-image]]
Standard Vietnamese has six tones, known as ngang, sắc, huyền, hỏi, ngã, and nặng tones. {{Clear}}
== Thai == Thai has five phonemic 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 phonemic tones and their phonetic realization, in the IPA. <!-- The whole point of this table is to illustrate phonetic detail of the tones. This doesn't occur anywhere else, and is from the IPA Handbook. --> thumb|250px|Thai language tone chart|class=skin-invert-image {| 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 *Archaic & modern four tones in Chinese
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:Tone (linguistics) Category:Linguistics terminology Category:Chinese language Category:Vietnamese language