thanh ngã
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰajŋ̟˧˧ ŋaː˦ˀ˥]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰɛɲ˧˧ ŋaː˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰan˧˧ ŋaː˨˩˦]
Noun
[edit]- (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