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I am working on some varieties of Tangsa - the name used in India for the 'language' that the ISO terms Naga Tase (ISO639-3:nst), and which includes around 70 identifiable 'sub-tribes' each of which has their own distinctive linguistic variety, sometimes intelligible
by others, sometimes not. Work on several varieties by myself and Paul Hastie a PhD student working on the Tikhak variety, as well as the words llisted in Weidert 1987
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tibeto-Burman Tonology</i>, agree that there are three tones on live syllables. In addition I agree with Weidert that there is a contrast between glottal stop as a final segment and glottal constriction as part of the tone.<br>
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In the two varieties that I have most closely investigated, Cholim (also called Tonglum) and Lochhang (also called Langching) one of the tones is associated with some final glottal constriction, which my Lochhang consultant describes as a 'brake'. In Cholim
this tone is in the higher range of the speaker's pitch, whereas in Lochhang it is in the lower range. It mostly corresponds with what Weidert calls tone 1 in his materials which are probably the Joglei variety. Some other varieties do not appear to have this
final constriction in the speech of the consultants I've been able to interview.<br>
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What you have called 'checked tones' are also found in the Tai languages spoken in Assam. These are reflexes of the proto C tone in Tai, thought to have been creaky, and fully creaky tones are also found in some varieties. I have written about these things.<br>
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Stephen<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Stephen Morey<br>
Australian Research Council Future Fellow<br>
Centre for Research on Language Diversity<br>
La Trobe University<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Website: </font><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm"><font face="Arial">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm</font></a></div>
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<font face="Arial">Language data website: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/assam"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/assam</font></a><font face="Arial">
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Dictionary websites: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/ahom</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/singpho</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/phake"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/phake</font></a><font face="Arial">
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Linguistic data archived at::<br>
DoBeS: </font><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS">http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS</a></font><font face="Arial"> and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India<br>
ELAR: <a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a></font><font face="Arial"><br>
PARADISEC: </font><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au"><font face="Arial">http://www.paradisec.org.au</font></a><br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">North East Indian Linguistics Society: </font>
<a href="http://sealang.net/neils"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/neils</font></a><font face="Arial">
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<b>Sent:</b> 21 September 2012 09:47<br>
<b>To:</b> TIBETO-BURMAN-LINGUISTICS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> query: checked/entering tone<br>
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<div>Dear colleagues,
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<div>In the process of compiling some tone and tone-related entries for a forthcoming dictionary, I was asked whether the 'checked/entering tone' which is frequently discussed with respect to Chinese dialects is a concept invoked for other languages (possibly
other Sino-Tibetan, but even more, for other languages <i>outside</i> of the family altogether). My basic journal/literature/even Google searches have not been very fruitful. Can anyone help me with this?</div>
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Orche<br>
('Thanks' in Manange)
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<i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i><br>
<i>Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature<br>
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i>
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