thanh ngã

Etymology
🇰🇲. The word ngã literally refers to a person's tripping or collapsing, not the "fall" in pitch of a phonetic "falling" tone contour.

Noun

 * 1)  the “broken rising tone” that occurs in the word  as a distinctive tone contour in Northern Vietnamese, phonetically marked by a rise in pitch interrupted by a glottal closure, and orthographically marked by the  above a vowel letter