Template:IPA tones, intonation, and suprasegmentals
Appearance
| Length, stress, and rhythm | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ˈke | Primary stress (appears before stressed syllable) |
ˌke | Secondary stress (appears before stressed syllable) |
| eː kː | Long (vowel or consonant) | ə̆ ɢ̆ | Extra-short; flap |
| eˑ | Half-long | ʎ̮ | |
| ek.ste eks.te |
Syllable break (internal boundary) |
es‿e | Linking (lack of a boundary; a phonological word) |
| Intonation | |||
| | | Minor or foot break | ‖ | Major or intonation break |
| ↗︎ | Global rise | ↘︎ | Global fall |
| Up- and down-step | |||
| ꜛke | Upstep | ꜜke | Downstep |
| Pitch diacritics | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ŋ̋ e̋ | Extra high | ŋ̌ ě | Rising | ŋ᷄ e᷄ | Mid-rising | |||||||
| ŋ́ é | High | ŋ̂ ê | Falling | ŋ᷅ e᷅ | Low-rising | |||||||
| ŋ̄ ē | Mid | ŋ᷈ e᷈ | Peaking (rising–falling) | ŋ᷇ e᷇ | High-falling | |||||||
| ŋ̀ è | Low | ŋ᷉ e᷉ | Dipping (falling–rising) | ŋ᷆ e᷆ | Mid-falling | |||||||
| ŋ̏ ȅ | Extra low | (etc.) | ||||||||||
| Chao tone letters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ˥e | ꜒e | e˥ | e꜒ | High |
| ˦e | ꜓e | e˦ | e꜓ | Half-high |
| ˧e | ꜔e | e˧ | e꜔ | Mid |
| ˨e | ꜕e | e˨ | e꜕ | Half-low |
| ˩e | ꜖e | e˩ | e꜖ | Low |
| ˩˥e | ꜖꜒e | e˩˥ | e꜖꜒ | Rising (low to high or generic) |
| ˥˩e | ꜒꜖e | e˥˩ | e꜒꜖ | Falling (high to low or generic) |
| (etc.: see below) | ||||
| Register | Level | Rising | Falling | Peaking | Dipping |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e˩ | e˩˩ | e˩˧ | e˧˩ | e˩˧˩ | e˧˩˧ |
| e˨ | e˨˨ | e˨˦ | e˦˨ | e˨˦˨ | e˦˨˦ |
| e˧ | e˧˧ | e˧˥ | e˥˧ | e˧˥˧ | e˥˧˥ |
| e˦ | e˦˦ | e˧˥˩ | e˧˩˥ | ||
| e˥ | e˥˥ | e˩˥ | e˥˩ | e˩˥˧ | e˥˩˧ |