dấu ngã

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (“diacritic”) +‎ ngã (from the fact that the word ngã has the tone written with a tilde)

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəw˧˦ ŋaː˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jəw˨˩˦ ŋaː˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jəw˦˥ ŋaː˨˩˦]

Noun

dấu ngã

1. (typography) tilde
2. (linguistics) ngã tone, creaky rising tone