玛多藏语的声调

Tones in Maduo Tibetan Speech

据最新调查,处于安多方言和康方言过渡地带的玛多话已发展出高低两个声调。声调产生的主要原因是声母清浊对立的消失和复辅音声母的简化。由于玛多话还有来自复辅音的全浊声母和较多的辅音韵尾,声调还处在萌芽状态,不太稳定,但这对于研究藏语声调的产生、分化原因仍具有重要的意义。

Data from recent surveys reveal that two tone, one high and one low have emerged in Maduo Tibetan speech, a transitional variety in between the Amdo and the Kham Tibetan dialects, which mainly stems from the neutralization of voiced and voiceless consonant initials and the simplification of initial consonant clusters. Though due to the existence and phonological function of voiced consonant initials from consonant clusters and a large number of consonant finals, the tones are just emerging and by far unstable, they have significant implications for the study of Tibetan tonogenesis and motivations of tonal splits in the Tibetan language.