Syllabic Patterns in MTL A MTL word, like each English word, can be - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

▶

Oct 05, 2023 185 likes •339 views

Syllabic Patterns in MTL A MTL word, like each English word, can be formed by only one syllable or several syllables . Each syllable in MTL follows either one of the two underlying patterns: [Consonant] + [front nasal-sound] + vowel +

SLIDE 1

Syllabic Patterns in MTL

 A MTL word, like each English word, can be

formed by only one syllable or several

syllables. Each syllable in MTL follows either
ne of the two underlying patterns:

 [Consonant] + [front nasal-sound] + vowel +

[tone indicator] (e.g. svaf, sviu, chviu, chvuix)

 [Consonant] + vowel + [tone indicator] +

[rear nasal-sound] (e.g. goarn, larn, lirn)

SLIDE 2

Three Special Symbols

 Apostrophe (‘)

 ok’ix (bad intention), okix (black mole)

 Hyphen (-)

 Taioaan-laang, Bykog-kongbiin

 Back-quote (`)

 kviaf`sie vs. kviaf sie

SLIDE 3

Long Tones

 Basic tone: kaki  Hight tone: kw  Low-falling ton: pax  Shouting-out tone: goar  Curving tone: hii

Papaf ciaq pafpar. BQo hii, hee ma hQr.

SLIDE 4

SLIDE 5

hoxsu: svix symmih? ciwsiefn: svix Liim. hoxsu: Liim symmih? ciwsiefn : lym kQlioong Kvoax tiQh siQfciar  sviu tiQh siQzym

SLIDE 6

Short Tones

 High stop – abruptly stopping at the high-pitch

with tone indicators: h, p, t, and k

 Low stop – abruptly stopping at the low-pitch

with tone indicators: q, b, d, and g

 id ji svaf six go lak chid poeq kao zap

SLIDE 7

SLIDE 8

Glottal stop (open puff of breath)

 siQq siQhsiQq iQq  baq

phaq piaq

 zheq svaq tiq  tiQh peh cih  ciQh theh tuh  pQh ciah liah

SLIDE 9

Bilabial stop

 zap hap liap  cip lip jip  iab habhap liabliap  sib sipsib tab  siab siapsiab khib  ciab giab hib

SLIDE 10

Alveolar stop

 kut cit’ee sit  kudkut cidee sidsit  tit tidtit itteng  bahkud id pid  ad kad khad  thud oad koad

SLIDE 11

Velar stop

 siok lok

tok

 siogmih

log’ar togsyn

 og

pog pok’hwn

 oklaang phoksuxphog lak  hog Bykog jiog  hokkhix kokkaf imgak

SLIDE 12

A’Hiofng khix Hiongkarng boea hviw, hviw cviaa phafng. 阿香去香港 , 買香香很香. 阿香去箱港 , 買箱箱很箱. KhiQq bahkut’ar.

SLIDE 13

Web Sites

 http://taigie.taioaan.org  http://taigie.taioaan.org/pdf  http://learntaiwanese.taioaan.org  http://taioaan.org/wiki

SLIDE 14

Linguistic

 Antoine Mellet

 A Language is a Dialect with an Army and Navy

 Saphir, and Worf:

 Linguistic relativity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

 每一種語言背後均有其獨特的思考邏輯及文化

價值觀，其使用者會深深受其價值觀影響與支配。

 When a community loses its language, it often loses