thanh ngã

Vietnamese

Etymology

thanh (“tone”) +‎ ngã (“to fall; to tumble”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thanh ngã

1. (linguistics) the “broken rising” tone, one of the six tones in the Vietnamese language, marked by the diacritic dấu ngã (tilde)