Vietnamese word
thanh ngã
Hà-Nội[tʰajŋ̟˧˧ ŋaː˦ˀ˥]Huế[tʰɛɲ˧˧ ŋaː˧˨]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[tʰan˧˧ ŋaː˨˩˦]
In your course · Chapter 44
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B1
Meanings
- broken rising tone
- 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
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)