The Middle Ancient Origines of the High Rise Tone in the Menggong Dialect

The middle ancient origins of the high rise tone in the Menggong dialect are:most of the middle ancientrutone characters,most of thequtone characters with initials ofpang,bing,tou,ding,qing,cong,part of thequtone characters with initials ofche,cheng,chuan,chuang,shen,ri,xi,qun,xiao,xia,and fewshangtone characters.The emergence of this high rise tone may be related to the initial inqutone characters and to the end of the finial inrutone characters.