LDTC Home About Me and My Language About the language and this project Sound System Bird Story Translation 1: morphology Translation 2: syntax Proverbs My Language Use Folk Songs Word List Dictionary Thong Boi Sound and Writing System IPA Orthography Example /p/ p pu ‘cloth’ /ph/ ph phi 'blanket' /b/ b bon 'bowl'     bui 'dirty' /f/ f fan 'rice'     fun 'dizzy', 'powder' /t/ t tiam ‘shop’ /th/ th thiam ‘sweet’ /d/ d di cak ‘this one’ * /tʃ/ c cew ‘to go’, ‘to run’ /tʃh/ ch chut ‘out’ /dʒ/ j jam ‘salt’ /k/ k ki 'him/her'     kok 'corner' /kh/ kh khak 'hold'     khek 'alternate name for the language'     khok 'to hit' /g/ g gung-gung ‘snail snack’** /h/ h hak 'to scare, frighten' /m/ m mo 'no', 'a hat'     mai 'to buy', 'to sell' /n/ n nai 'earth, mud, soil' /ɲ/ ny nyon ‘soft’ /ŋ/ ng ng 'five'     nga 'teeth'     ngai 'first person singular'     ngin 'person'     ngo 'hungry' /l/ l liao 'finish'     lai 'to pull' /j/ y boy ‘to be able to’ /w/ w siw ‘hand’       /a/ a ai 'short' /u/ u ung 'to push' /e/ e ew 'to vomit' /o/ o o nyiaw 'to urinate' /i/ i pit 'pencil', kom pit 'pen' /ə/ ě chap sě ‘chopstick’ * So far we have only found one occurrence of this sound. ** This sound only occurs in loan words. /b/ vs. /p/ /t/ vs. /th/ bu 'black' tiam 'shop' pu 'cloth thiam 'sweet' Tone System Tone Tone Name Tone Letters Description 33  Yin Ping  陰平 24 / Mid 55 Yang Ping  陽平 11 \/ High level 13 Shang 上 31 \ Low rising 21 Qu 去 55 (no symbol) Low falling         55 Yin Ru  陰入 2 \ High 21 Yang Ru 陽入 5 (no symbol) Low Example of the tone system: Thong Boi Tone English jit 35 1 ngi 21 low falling 2 sam 33 mid 3 si 21 low falling 4 ng 13 low rising 5 liuk 55 high level 6 chit 55 7 pat 55 high level 8 kiu 13 low rising 9 sip 21? low 10 nga    55  (Yang Ping) Teeth coy 21 (Qu) Mouth siw 13 (shang) - (Su) [glide (y)] Hand sit Low Eat fon 21 (Qu) Rice du 13 low rising Stomach kiang 13 low rising Neck phi kung 21 + 33 Nose Credit to my mentor, Justin Hiro Ota for the material development of this page.