4 examples: o, ó, ǫ, ǫ́
1 North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: o [o] - IPA: Mid back vowel.
Word: det’ǫnęcho [tɛt'õnɛ̃tʃʰo] "eagle" - Speaker: SP5
A word with two L tone mid back vowels o. The first one which follows the alveolar ejective t’ is nasalized.
2 North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: ó [ó] - IPA: Mid back vowel, falling tone
Word: denehóot’įnę [tɛnɛhó:t’ɪ̃nɛ̃] "family" - Speaker: SP5
This is an example of a long mid back vowel with a falling tone.
3 North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: ǫ [õ] - IPA: Mid back nasalized vowel, low tone
Word: sǫde [sõtɛ] "elder brother" - Speaker: SP5
4 North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: ǫ́ [ṍ] - IPA: Mid back nasalized vowel, high tone
Word: kanį́zǫ́ [kxɑnĩzṍ] "always" - Speaker: SP6
Note the H tone on the final syllable falls and it is lower than the H tone on the 2nd syllable.
