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The rising and falling tones are uncommon, being found only in loanwords and in a small number of native words where elision of ''VCV'' sequences has caused high-tone and low-tone syllables with the same vowel to occur adjacently to each other. | The rising and falling tones are uncommon, being found only in loanwords and in a small number of native words where elision of ''VCV'' sequences has caused high-tone and low-tone syllables with the same vowel to occur adjacently to each other. | ||
An example of four words distinguished only by tone: | |||
*'''High:''' ''ga'' ("day"), cognate to Rttirri ''ya'' | |||
*'''Low:''' ''gà'' ("room, chamber"), cognate to Rttirri ''yau'' | |||
*'''Rising:''' ''gâ'' ("sir"), cognate to Rttirri ''yaya'' ("socialite") | |||
*'''Falling:''' ''gǎ'' ("garbage"), a borrowing from Thai [[Wiktionary:กาก|กาก]] ''gàak'' | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||