Re: Random Questions #1: Tone Languages
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 22, 2002, 13:16 |
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In a message dated 03/22/02 3:04:59 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:
<< Register tone languages are common in Africa (Hausa is one). >>
Well, Hausa does have a contour tone, that being a falling tone, but it
only occurs on long vowels, or sometimes when an affix with an underlying low
tone is suffixed to a word ending in a high tone. Is it still basically
contour? (I'm starting to learn it.)
-David
"fawiT, Gug&g, tSagZil-a-Gariz, waj min DidZejsat wazid..."
"Soft, driven, slow and mad, like some new language..."
-Jim Morrison
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