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| | 4 || {{done|4}} || {{t|â}} || circumflex || U+0302 || rising-falling tone | | | 4 || {{done|4}} || {{t|â}} || circumflex || U+0302 || rising-falling tone |
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| ==== Sparse tone marking style ====
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| Before [[Toaq Delta]], a Toaq text could have chosen ''not'' to mark the most common tone, {{tone|4}}. At the time, this practice was dubbed '''sparse tone marking style'''.
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| A verb could never carry {{tone|8}}, so there would’ve been no confusion as long as the reader knew enough Toaq to tell particles from verbs. Therefore, the practice was acceptable in informal writing but discouraged in educational materials. Its supporters states that {{tone|4}} is actually tenacious to analayze as an inherent, or “default”, tone for verbs just as much as {{tone|8}} was for particles.
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| [[Toaq Delta]] removed {{tone|8}} and the notion of a neutral tone altogether; {{done|1}}, although unmarked, is always understood as falling tone. Thus, one could say that with the introduction of the new four-[[tone]] system, sparse tone marking has become the standard, with both the phonology and the orthography backing it.
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| === Prefix marking === | | === Prefix marking === |