Tonal. The Times of our Language.

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2020-In Progress.

 

 

• Glossary.

 

 

Santa Inés Ahuatempan.

Puebla, Mexico.

 

 

It is a digital and printed glossary that gathers words and expressions in the Ngiba language along with their meaning, definition, or comment.

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 This glossary also contains an image with the sound frequency of each word and a tetragram with its musical notation. The tetragram is a resource that Ulises Matamoros Ascención appropriates to identify the correct pronunciation of each word. 

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Note: 

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The Ngiba language is tonal. A tonal language is a language in which the contour of the fundamental frequency with which each syllable is pronounced serves to create phonological contrasts and minimum pairs. That means that variations of tone in each word make its meaning or grammatical structure vary as well.