On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
> On 06/02/09 04:34, Sean wrote:
> [...]
> > Wow. There are 9 tones out there? No wonder everyone laughs at me when
> > I tried to speak Cantonese. :)
> [...]
>
> IIUC, depending whom you ask, how you count them, and how you romanize
> the language, there may be 6, 8 or 9 tones in Cantonese: see among
> others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese
IIUC, there are 9 tones. However, for romanization or ime purpose.
the last three tones are always associate with romanization ended with
p t k (入聲), so that for they can be mixed with the first 6 tones
without causing ambiguity: 7->1, 8->3, 9->6. Hypothetically If
mandarin also encode the 4th tone using a trailing letter, there will
be only 3 tones in mandarin and obviously that will not be correct.
Not sure about 8 tones.
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