thanh ngã

Vietnamese

Etymology

thanh (“tone”) +‎ ngã (“to fall; to tumble”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰajŋ̟˧˧ ŋaː˦ˀ˥]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɛɲ˧˧ ŋaː˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰan˧˧ ŋaː˨˩˦]

Noun

(linguistics) the “broken rising” tone, one of the six tones in the Vietnamese language, marked by the diacritic dấu ngã (tilde)

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