Editing Dungan language (section)

=== Tones ===
Tones in Dungan are marked with nothing (tone 1), a [[ъ]] (tone 2) and [[ь]] (tone 3).<ref name="omniglot.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/dungan.htm|title=Dungan language, alphabet and pronunciation|website=www.omniglot.com|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''Tonal comparison between Dungan and Mandarin'''
|-
! rowspan="2" align="center" |[[Standard Chinese phonology#Tones|Standard Chinese tone number]]
! rowspan="2" align="center" |Dungan [[tone number]]
! rowspan="2" align="center" |[[Tone name]]
! colspan="2" align="center" |Dungan example
! colspan="2" align="center" |[[Chinese character]]
! colspan="2" align="center" |Gansu-Dungan
! colspan="2" align="center" |Shaanxi-Dungan
! colspan="2" align="center" |[[Standard Chinese]]
! rowspan="2" align="center" |References
|-
!Orthography
!IPA
!Orthography
!IPA
! align="center" |Pitch pattern
! align="center" |[[Tone contour]]
! align="center" |Pitch pattern
! align="center" |[[Tone contour]]
! align="center" |Pitch pattern
! align="center" |[[Tone contour]]
|-
| align="center" |1
| rowspan="2" align="center" |1
| align="center" |陰平<br>(yīnpíng)
| align="center" |хуа
|/xwǎ/
| align="center" |花
|/xwá/
| rowspan="2" align="center" |Rising
| rowspan="2" align="center" |{{IPA|˨˦}} (24)
| align="center" |Falling
| align="center" |{{IPA|˥˩}} (51)
| align="center" |High
| align="center" |{{IPA|˥}} (55)
| rowspan="2" |Standard Gansu-Dungan does not distinguish tone 1 and tone 2 only in the final position of phonetic words.
|-
| align="center" |2
| align="center" |陽平<br>(yángpíng)
| align="center" |хуа
|/xwǎ/
| align="center" |華
|/xwǎ/
| align="center" |Rising
| align="center" |{{IPA|˨˦}} (24)
| align="center" |Rising
| align="center" |{{IPA|˧˥}} (35)
|-
| align="center" |3
| align="center" |2
| align="center" |上聲<br>(shǎngshēng)
| align="center" |вə(ъ)
|/vɤ̂/
| align="center" |我
|/wò/
| align="center" |Falling
| align="center" |{{IPA|˥˩}} (51)
| align="center" |Falling
| align="center" |{{IPA|˥˧}} (53)
| align="center" |Low/dipping
| align="center" |{{IPA|˩, ˨˩˦}} (1, 214)
||
|-
| align="center" |4
| align="center" |3
| align="center" |去聲<br>(qùshēng)
| align="center" |чў(ь)
|/t͡ɕú/
| align="center" |去
|/t͡ɕŷ/
| align="center" |High
| align="center" |{{IPA|˦}} (44)
| align="center" |High
| align="center" |{{IPA|˦}} (44)
| align="center" |Falling
| align="center" |{{IPA|˥˨}} (52)
||Some syllables originating in tone 4 fall into tone 1 in modern Mandarin.
|-
| align="center" |0
| align="center" |0
| align="center" |輕聲
(qīngshēng)
| align="center" |зы
|/t͡sɨ/
| align="center" |子
|/t͡sɹ̩/
| align="center" |Short
| align="center" |Varies
| align="center" |Short
| align="center" |Varies
| align="center" |Short
| align="center" |Varies
||Actual pitch depends on the preceding syllable.
|}