Bahasa Vietnam Sebagai Bahasa Nada

• Main Author: Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib
• Format: Article NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2009
• Subjects: Jurnal i-lib UGM
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/27627/; http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=10688
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Vietnamese is a complex language as evidenced by the variety of its tones, shapes and meanings. Its complexity is a natural result of the fact that the language belongs to different proto-languages, i.e. Austro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibet, Thai-Kadai and Hmong-Dao. Therefore, it is interesting to study Vietnamese. Vietnamese is a tonal language. Pitch is a crucial part in tonal languages since it helps create suprasegmental phonemes to produce different lexical meaning. To understand suprasegmental pho- . nemes, one must understand segmental phonemes. A tonal analysis can only be done after efforts have been made to reveal segmental phonemes. This article attempts to answer these questions: (I) how to describe the Vietnamese phonological system, and (2) how to describe pitch in a tonal language such as Vietnamese. While the Vietnamese phonological system makes up the segmental phonemes, pitch in Vietnamese language makes up the suprasegmental phonemes. Key Words: nada, fonem segmental, fonem suprasegmental, vokal, konsonan, diftong, triftong