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 | | Subject: The Mid tone Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:49 pm | |
| Like the other Senufo languages, Nafaanra has three contrastive tones: High, Mid and Low. Tone is normally not marked in the Nafaanra orthography. Examples are:[16] kúfɔ̀ "yam" (High-Low) dama "two pesewas (coin)" (Mid) màŋà "rope" (Low) The Mid tone sometimes has a rising feature, the High tone sometimes is subject to downstep (a tonal process resulting in a High tone being realised lower than a preceding High tone), and an upstep is also found.[17] The "rising feature" of Mid may be related to the fact that two different Mid tones are found in some other Senufo languages (e.g. Sucite and Supyire).[15] The High tone downstep (signified by a raised exclamation mark) occurs in the following context:[16] abogados zaragozawholesale soaps | |
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