Search results
We did not find results for: Four tones (Middle Chinese).
Check spelling or type a new query.
We did not find results for: Four tones (Middle Chinese).
Check spelling or type a new query.
Tonal system of Middle Chinese, vestiges of which survive in modern Chinese languages
The four tones of Chinese poetry and dialectology are four traditional tone classes of Chinese words. They play an important role in Chinese poetry and in comparative studies of tonal development in the modern varieties of Chinese, both in traditional Chinese and in Western linguistics. They correspond to the phonology of Middle Chinese, and are named even or level ( píng), rising ( shǎng), depart... Wikipedia