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Burmese is a tonal language, which means phonemic contrasts can be made on the basis of the tone of a vowel. In Burmese, these contrasts involve not only pitch, but also phonation, intensity (loudness), duration, and vowel quality.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Burmese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Burmese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
In Burmese, differences in tone correlate with vowel phonation and so neither exists independently. There are three registers in Burmese, which have traditionally been considered three of the four "tones". (The fourth is not actually a register but is a closed syllable, and is similar to the so-called "entering tone" in Middle Chinese phonetics ...
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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
Examples A /ˈeɪ/ အေ: အေဒီ AD: B /ˈbiː/ ဘီ: ဘီဘီစီ BBC: C /ˈsiː/ စီ: စီအင်အင် CNN: D /ˈdiː/ ဒီ: ဂျီဒီပီ GDP: E /ˈiː/ အီး: အီ: စီအီးအို CEO: F /ˈɛf/ အက်ဖ် ဖှ [2] အက်ဖ်-၂၂ F-22 Raptor: G /ˈdʒiː/ ဂျီ: ဂ ...
For example, among its vowels, Burmese combines modal voice with low tone, breathy voice with falling tone, creaky voice with high tone, and glottal closure with high tone. These four registers contrast with each other, but no other combination of phonation (modal, breath, creak, closed) and tone (high, low, falling) is found.
In Western Pwo, these contrasts involve not only pitch, but also phonation, intensity (loudness), duration, and vowel quality. There are four tones: low-level, high-level, falling, and checked tones. In the table, they are shown with /a/ with tone marks. The exact phonetic realization of /a/ is [ä]. Additionally, there are atonic syllables ...