The significances of the final -h as a marker of entering tone characters in Romanized Chinese Texts in the Qing Dynasty.

• Main Author: Wong, Ling Yann
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science Press 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18034/1/The%20significances%20of%20the%20final.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18034/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

The significances of the final -h as a marker in Romanized Chinese texts in the Qing Dynasty can be summed up into three points as below: 1. the final -h is the marker of the entering tone; 2. The final -h does not have any independent meaning, neither the marker of tone category; 3.The final -h indicates a short intonation. Based on the pronunciation of entering tone chanlcters which noted in Romanized Chinese Texts in the Qing Dynasty I and the investigation and research of Modern Dialects, this article aims to discuss the significances of the final-h of entering tone characters which recorded by the Westerners to China in the nineteenth century.