This is part of A Sound Reference to the IPA

THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 1993)

SECTIONS:
 Consonants (pulmonic)   Consonants (non-pulmonic)   Vowels   Other symbols 

 Suprasegmentals   Tones & word accents   Diacritics 


TONES & WORD ACCENTS

LEVEL
CONTOUR
or Extra high or Rising
High   Falling
Mid   High rising
Low   Low rising
Extra low   Rising-falling
Downstep   Global rise etc.
Upstep   Global fall  

Downstep and upstep
Global rise and fall

23-may-2000, Kristian Skarbø (kskarboe@online.no)