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Four tones (Middle Chinese)

The four tones of Chinese poetry and dialectology (simplified Chinese: 四声; traditional Chinese: 四聲; pinyin: sìshēng) are four traditional tone classes of Chinese words. They play an important role in Chinese poetry and in comparative studies of tonal development in the modern varieties of Chinese, both in traditional Chinese and in Western linguistics.…

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Four tones (Middle Chinese)

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tone chinese tones entering modern middle classes rising departing level four varieties words checked syllables stop dialects dark final shǎng

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Taiwanese Hokkieninstance ofSome contemporary fāngyán0.80text
Jininstance ofSome contemporary fāngyán0.80text
Penang are said to preserve the entering toneinstance ofSome contemporary fāngyán0.80text
which is used as a marker to differentiate them from other varietiesinstance ofSome contemporary fāngyán0.80text
also genetically classify them via the comparative method.The four Early Middle Chineseinstance ofSome contemporary fāngyán0.80text
Shanghaineseinstance ofIn dialects0.80text
tone classes are numbered even if they are not phonemically distinctinstance ofIn dialects0.80text
Khotaneseinstance ofin source languages0.80text
which were borrowed into Chinese as shǎng toneinstance ofin source languages0.80text

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