Low glottal tone

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The low glottal tone glottal tone is Toaq's third tone. It is pronounced by inserting a short glottal stop in the syllable's first vowel: tïo is pronounced /tiˀi.o/.

Unlike the other tones, it only occurs on particles, especially those that introduce a subordinate clause, like ꝡä and and . Its purpose is generally to introduce some sort of recursion or subordination.

Verbs never have the low glottal tone. In fact, pronouncing a multi-raku verb in the low glottal tone would collide with the pronunciation of a prefixed word: *küne would sound exactly like the low allotone of the word kụne in the falling tone.

Thus, to avoid this collision between the pronunciation of glottal tone and prefixes, regular prefix-taking verbs are never in glottal tone, and words in glottal tone are always one raku long. Additionally, words in glottal tone can't have prefixes. (Or maybe *kụ̈ꝡa is pronounced /kuˀuˀuja/?)