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| | Chinese language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
 | | The dungan language (autonym: khueuzwu yuuyan; [] in chinese) is a language spoken by the 50,000 dungan... | | | Hakka is one language in the family of languages known as chinese.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_language.htm
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| | Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question. | | | The way in which tone is used in a particular language leads to the language being classified either as a tonal language or a pitch accented language. | | | In Yeniseian languages, tone is comcomitant with other features and it depends on the interpretation are these languages tonal or no. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)
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| | Introduction to the Thai Language |
| | Indeed, the Thai language has one of the simplest grammars of all languages, and many writers have claimed there is no grammar at all. | | | The grammar of the Thai language is considerably simpler than grammar in Western languages, and for many students, this makes up for the additional difficulty of tones. | | | Tenses, levels of politeness, verb-to-noun conversion, and other language concepts are accomplished with the simple addition of various modifying words (called "particles") to the basic subject-verb-object format. |
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http://www.thaioregon.com/thailanguage.htm
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| | Introduction to Tonal Languages |
| | This is a language in which the majority of syllables maintain the same level or register. | | | No matter what language environment a child grows up in, the intonation contours that are expressed by the child are characteristic of the adult speech in the environment (Wang 147). | | | For example, in Igala, a Nigerian tonal language, the three letter word "awo" can have many meanings depending upon the tones used in its production. |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/tonal.html
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| | Tonal language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Intonation is a variable feature of phrases and sentences, while tonality is a fixed feature of individual words. | | | However, the classical accent marking system taught to students disguises this simplicity by using three diacritics in a complex scheme. | | | Chinese is the most well-known of such languages. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonal_language
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| | NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Albanian language |
| | Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. | | | Writing Systems of the World today A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Albanian-language
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| | ~ laoconnection.com - Lao Language |
| | The Lao language is a highly tonal one. | | | Learning the language can be easy, that is if you have the inclination and drive to learn a new language, especially an Asian one. | | | So, if you learn this language in parts then it will not seem as intimidating - just keep that in mind. |
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http://laoconnection.com/language1.htm
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| | CSLI Publications |
| | Unlike the other Songhay languages for which modern reference grammars are available, TSK preserves the lexical and grammatical tones of the proto-language. | | | These contributions apply a range of methodologies and perspectives to the problem of the relation of language to human culture and cognition, with an emphasis on how language is produced and understood in context. | | | CSLI Publications reports new developments in the study of language, information, logic, and computation. |
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http://csli-publications.stanford.edu
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| | Music & Communication - African Talking Drum - African Culture |
| | The most well known example of a tonal language is Chinese (Mandarin). | | | For example the Luo word dhok can mean cattle or language depending on whether a high or low tone is used. | | | In order to be able to send out messages that only the intended receiver would understand - master drummers encoded false meanings into some of the common phrases that they used. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art20431.asp
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| | Vietnamese language is sino-tibetan ? - China History Forum, online chinese history forum |
| | A language that is non-tonic cannot gain tonic ability if they were just to borrow foreign vocabulary (for example, japanese/korean which is non-tonic but borrows from chinese) because tonic ability is extremely difficult to learn for people whose basic language is non-tonic (just ask european language speakers). | | | Japanese is a tonal language by the way. |
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http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1782
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| | TIPS: Speech Recogniton for Chinese Language Instruction |
| | Although ambitious, it is possible and feasible to incorporate state-of-the-art language learning technology into the Chinese Language program with a modern computer language lab. | | | The interactive oral-aural communication with the computer, and the immediate reward of students’ successful performance using the computer may be a worthwhile strategy to encourage students to develop fluency and comprehend Chinese while they modify their own pronunciation. | | | The project is prompted by both the current theoretical research on interactive language teaching using modern technologies, and by the current needs of American students learning Mandarin Chinese. |
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~tao/tips.htm
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| | Hitchhiking Vietnam: Travel Tips |
| | Once you speak the language well enough to get by you have a tool that will solve almost any problem and open every door. | | | According to my local library system the Vietnamese language didn't exist, a frustratingly empty space between Urdu and Welsh in the stacks. | | | Dictionaries are alphabetical except that they treat each tone as a separate entity - for example, you'll be running through several iterations of MA depending on the accent mark over the A. I'd like to introduce here a useful language tool that I developed over the years on the road. |
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http://www.pbs.org/hitchhikingvietnam/travel/lang.html
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| | Untitled Document |
| | We all know that grammar and spell-check functions in word-processing programs are not foolproof. | | | Remember how rude and direct Americans can be?..." This last question always illicit a giggle, then we talk about the need to express simple ideas in a very direct way, one idea at a time, one idea per paragraph. | | | For a first revision, consider having students start the revision process in class so that any questions can be addressed. |
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http://www.uta.edu/english/fyguide/add1.htm
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| | MixedAsian |
| | In the long term, this would seem a very poor idea: one of the biggest challenges in language teaching is to get students to start processing phonetic information which they're used to ignoring entirely when they speak their native. | | | Since the teacher speaks using vocabulary restricted to that which the students have already learned, the students can match the teachers' words to the vocabulary in their lexicon without relying on tonal information at all. | | | Mandarin is a notoriously difficult language to learn. |
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http://mixedasian.blogspot.com/2003_06_29_mixedasian_archive.html
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| | Computer aided language learning |
| | One of the greatest opportunities for computer-aided spoken language learning may be in high school language education, where large class sizes limit opportunities for students to speak. | | | One-on-one spoken language exams with the teacher take time away from teaching and may only be possible a few times per semester. | | | There appears to be ongoing work by Seneff and others at MIT on tone recognition for spoken language learning. |
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http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~gelbart/call
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| | Talking Drums |
| | If any members of the class speak a tonal language (Chinese, for example), or if a parent or other adult is available for a demonstration, ask them to help the class with a show-and-tell that demonstrates how the meaning of words in their language changes with inflection. | | | In any language, words, phrases and sentences have a natural rhythm. | | | In a very tonal language, that is enough. |
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http://cnx.org/content/m11872/latest
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| | Declan's Korean Language Page |
| | One of the most frequently asked questions asked on Korean chat sites and web-boards is how to get Korean language sites to display HanGul correctly in web browsers running on English language operating systems. | | | Offering free Korean language learning software, and online Korean courses. | | | One of the first Korean language lessons sites on the web. |
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http://www.declan-software.com/korean.htm
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| | Whistled language - |
| | "All whistled languages share one basic characteristic: they function by varying the frequency of a simple wave-form as a function of time, generally with minimal dynamic variations (but see Cowan 1948 see Mazateco), which is readily understandable since in most cases their only purpose is long-distance communication." (ibid: 32) | | | A concise message on the LINGUIST mailing list summarizing knowledge about whistled languages. | | | In a non-tonal language, segments may be differentiated as follows: |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Whistled_language
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| | [No title] |
| | The great thing about software is that you don't have to pay for the printing of all those pages anymore; you just load it all onto 4 CDs or 1 or 2 DVDs, making for a nice little packet about the size of an operatic boxed set, and you're done. | | | But generally, I consider it to be a repository of high-quality instructional materials, rather than a particular approach. | | | Incidentally, as computer infrastructure around the world improves, we do one day hope to devise international, foreign language versions of our multimedia textbooks. |
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http://www.societymusictheory.org:16080/pipermail/smt-talk/2003-August.txt
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| | Language Log: Jeopardy! strikes the wrong tone |
| | I checked online and could find no references to Kootenai being a tonal language, and fellow Language Logger Sally Thomason verified that Kootenai is indeed not tonal. | | | Did the usually meticulous clue-writers have some other tonal language in mind? | | | My best guess is that they confused Kootenai with one of the many Athabaskan languages that are tonal. |
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http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002797.html
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| | Front-end extension for tonal language recognition and speech reconstruction |
| | It is well known, however, that for some Asian languages (such as Mandarin, Cantonese and Thai) recognition can be improved when tonal information is introduced in addition to spectral information. | | | Front-end extension for tonal language recognition and speech reconstruction | | | A typical deployment of DSR systems for processing tonal languages will use the standard Mel-Cepstrum or noise-robust front-end features, with the addition of standard tonal features. |
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http://www.etsi.org/T_news/0107_DSR.htm
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| | Halfbakery: Tonal Lego Language |
| | Add the one by eight block and all the permutations that the flat and beveled pieces added, and you can see why the tonal system needs to be systemized (systemised?) and implemented. | | | Sounds like the problem of trying to learn Cantonese, where one sound can mean seven entirely different things, depending upon intonation. | | | I can see you publishing a book on this, sctld. |
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http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Tonal_20Lego_20Language
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| | Brover-Lubovsky, Bella (2001) |
| | Nevertheless, an analysis of Vivaldi's tonal structures suggests that the basic parameters of harmonic tonality are not relevant to understanding his tonal processing. | | | Vivaldi research describes his harmonic-tonal language as uniformly forward-looking and advanced, in line with other innovatory characteristics of his style. | | | A discussion of his harmonic language requires special terms, capable of expressing the intricate process of the establishment of the tonal system. |
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http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Archive/Disserts/brover-l.html
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| | Alberto Pérez Pereiro |
| | Although the development of tonality in Asiatic languages is usually associated the simplification of the syllable onset and coda, in Chamic languages, we should first consider the process by which the monosyllables came into being | | | Thurgood G (1992) From atonal to tonal in Utsat (a Chamic language of Hainan). | | | Another possibility would be the study of the disyllabic Jawi Malay languages of |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~aperez7/TONALITY.html
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| | Tom Pankhurst's TonalityGUIDE (pilot project) |
| | What really defines tonality is is the way in which these twelve semitones are related to each other in tonal pieces. | | | Tonal music creates tonality, not the other way round. | | | Like any language, tonality is made meaningful through usage, and theory can only limp along behind in its attempt to explain it as a system. |
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http://www.tonalityguide.com/introoverview.php
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| | Vong - Langmaker |
| | People were interested in a tonal artificial language. | | | Vong is a personal language and was designed by Victor Medrano. | | | Several enthusiasts have submitted poems, which are published on the site. |
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http://www.langmaker.com/db/Mdl_vong.htm
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| | Language |
| | Brit., "Languages of the World") This statement may be particularly true for Meixien Hakka. | | | Hakka spoken language is the 32nd widest spoken language in the world. | | | Although Kanji(Chinese characters) are used in the Japanese language, most words have multisyllables. |
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http://www.asiawind.com/hakka/language.htm
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| | MARCS Comparing Perception of Speech and Music |
| | We conclude that early exposure to a particular speech environment develops sensitivities to distinctive pitch features of that environment which generalise to a range of speech-like, but not musical, stimuli. | | | The results of our experiments indicate that speakers of a tonal language such as Thai, as hypothesized, were more accurate relative to non-tonal language speakers, in detecting pitch change in both spoken Thai and English items. | | | This project investigated the possible similarities in the structure and perception of short spoken and musical items. |
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http://marcs.uws.edu.au/research/music/cpsm.htm
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| | Mandarin tones |
| | These are most commonly used in language textbooks. | | | Although tonal languages may sound exotic, there is nothing special about tones from a physical or physiological point of view. | | | with numbers 1 through N (N being the number of tones in the language) standing for the type of tone. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/aspect/Chinesetones.html
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| | Having "perfect pitch" may depend on language |
| | Japan, where the language is not tonal, but where many young children | | | The languages studied in the new research were Vietnamese and Mandarin | | | not learn a tonal language or undergo early musical training. |
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http://www.perfectpitchpeople.com/language.htm
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| | Bassa language |
| | The below table shows how to say the Bassa alphabet (Vah script) - the consonants and volews. | | | Bassa is a tonal language belonging to the linguistic family. | | | Also, how to use the tonal marks in composition: |
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http://www.uniboa.org/bassalanguage.html
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| | Language of Thailand |
| | It is a tonal language, uninflected, and predominantly monosyllabic. | | | At any rate, Chinese and Thai have many similarities, since both are monosyllabic tonal languages. | | | The Thai language is liberally sprinkled with words from Pali and Sanskrit (the classical languages, respectively, of Theravada Buddhism and Indian Hinduism). |
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http://www.hellosiam.com/html/thailand/thailand-language.htm
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| | Speaking Chinese |
| | Since the Chinese language is filled with homonyms (words of different meaning but identical pronunciation), were it not for its tonal quality, Chinese would probably not work very well as a language. | | | Every Chinese word has one of these tonal values. | | | It is this tonal nature of the language that gave rise to Westerners mockingly referring to spoken Chinese as a "sing-song" language. |
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http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/Jta/Ch/ChLAN2.htm
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| | ipedia.com: Vietnamese language Article |
| | Although it contains many vocabulary borrowings from Chinese and was originally written using Chinese characters, it is considered by linguists to be one of the Austroasiatic languages, of which it has the most speakers (it has 10 times the number of speakers as the next most-spoken language, the Khmer language). | | | Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), a tonal language, is the national and official language of Vietnam. | | | Vietnamese, a tonal language, is the national and official language of Vietnam. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/vietnamese_language.html
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| | Thailander.com - Thai Language - English Version |
| | In tonal languages the meaning of a syllable is determined by the pitch at which it is pronounced. | | | In the Thai language, when you mispronounce a word, you don't simply say it incorrectly, you say another word entirely. | | | Except for the people living in Isaan (Northeastern Thailand), most Thais would have considerable problems understanding the Lao language. |
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http://www.thailander.com/aboutthailand/language
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| | Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Speaking Tonal Languages Promotes Perfect Pitch |
| | In these so-called tonal languages, changing pitch can completely alter the meaning of words. | | | Deutsch suggests that for students who speak a tonal language, acquiring absolute pitch is like learning a second language, which becomes much more difficult after a “critical period” of development. | | | One limitation of the study was that all of the Mandarin speakers from the Chinese institute were also ethnically Chinese, so genetic differences could explain some of the effect. |
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000AF8AE-D1DD-118F-91DD83414B7F0000
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| | Vu Gbe |
| | Because their language is tonal, the drums can act as a speech surrogate with the low, high and middle tones mimicing the tonal patterns of the spoken language. | | | In Ghana, the Eve people are masters of the coded messages of drum language. | | | The drum language calls for the ancestors' support, and widely uses proverbial statements to engender an emotional and physical understanding of the message and its urgency. |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-3/data/web_type/People/vuGbe.html
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| | Cantonese is a tonal language with nine lexical tones. | | | Come find out how tonal languages and musical pitch and memory are all related. | | | Finally, we were interested in how speakers of a tonal language such as Cantonese would negotiate the pitch requirements of a melody with the phonetic/semantic requirements of the words being sung as lyrics. |
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/ccrmas/199609/19960908.html
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| | AVSP 2001 Abstract: Burnham et al. |
| | The results support the existence of visual information for tone, and show that this is available in the absence of experience with the language in question, and even in the absence of experience with the lexical use of tone. | | | Here, non-native (tonal, Thai, and non-tonal, English) language speakers were tested on a discrimination version of this task in three modes: auditory-visual (AV), auditory only (AO), and visual only (VO). | | | A previous study by the first two authors suggests there is visual information for tone perception: under certain conditions Cantonese speakers are able to identify spoken words as one of six Cantonese words differing only in tone on the basis of lip and face movements at a rate better than chance [1]. |
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http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/avsp01/av01_155.html
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| | Barcelona Publishers: Healing Heritage: Paul Nordoff Exploring the Tonal Language of Music |
| | Paul Nordoff Exploring the Tonal Language of Music | | | In these penetrating sessions, Dr. Nordoff dialogues with his students about the expressive dynamics of each tonal and rhythmic component of music, and through musical examples from various composers throughout history, demonstrates their therapeutic significance. | | | This book is a foundational text for all music therapists who use improvisation as therapy. |
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http://www.barcelonapublishers.com/healingheritage.htm
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| | Thailand's population, religion, education, school system and Thai language with data, figures, facts and information |
| | Depending on the accentuation of a word or a syllable is said it has a different meaning. | | | Thailand's population, religion, education, school system and Thai language with data, figures, facts and information | | | Thai is a tonal language, including 5 different tones. |
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http://www.kochangvr.com/thailandspopulation/buddhismreligioneducation.htm
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| | Learn a tone language on 43 Things |
| | I know a couple of people who are afraid to try to learn tonal languages because they don’t want to know they can’t. | | | communication education language linguistics morphemes phonemes tonal tonemes tones | | | Personally, I would just like to be able to speak a tonal language, but the potential to show them up is an added bonus :o) |
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http://www.43things.com/things/view/59603
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| | Language |
| | Thai is a tonal language, which makes it extremely hard for foreigners to learn.The formalization of the Thai alphabet is accredited to King Ramkamhaeng of Sukhothai who, reputedly in 1283, developed written Thai from a south Indian script via Mon and Khmer writing. | | | However, English is widely understood, particularly in Bangkok where it is almost the major commercial language. | | | With only slight modifications, the 13th century alphabet has survived in modern Thai, with 44 consonants and 32 vowels. |
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http://www.regit.com/regitour/thailand/abouthai/language.htm
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| | Eaiea |
| | The Eaiea language, created by Bruce Koestner, is designed to allow musical instruments the opportunity to speak words through combinations of pitches, and also to let singers speak two languages simultaneously. | | | A one act chamber opera for string quartet and two vocalists that employs the Eaiea language has been written, and the composer is seeking talented musicians to perform this work. | | | English Prefixes (shown at the ends of words in Eaiea) |
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http://www.eaiea.com
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