Template:ki-tonal classes/documentation
This template is used to display the examples for tonal class(es) which some researches have presented as inline text. The sources are as follows:
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
Parameters
[edit]The following parameters are available:
| Parameter | Function |
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| 1 | The tonal class given by Armstrong (1940). 1: moondo class, 2: mote class, 3: ŋgoko class, 4: mbori class, 5: njata class, 6: ɲamo class, 7: ðiimbo class
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| 2 | The tonal class given by Benson (1964). Give (class number)-(number of the syllable(s) in the stem of the term). If it is unknown how many syllables a term consists of, just give the Benson's indication.
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| 3 | The accent pattern given by Yukawa (1981). LI: 低I型, LII: 低II型, H: 高型, latent-H: 潜在的高型, rising: 昇型, latent-rising: 潜在的昇型, HHI: 高高I型, latent-HHII: 潜在的高高II型, HLI: 高低I型, HLII: 高低II型, changing: 移動型, 2: 二峰型
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