Re: loglang vocab again

Garth Wallace scripsit:

> >Is there a language with a record number of tones? I know Vietnamese and
> >Cantonese have six.
>
> I thought Cantonese had eight.
Cantonese has 11 tones at the -emic level: six tones that apply to
ordinary syllables, three that apply to syllables ending in a stop,
and two that are morphemic in their own right.  But at the -etic level
this is realized with only six tones.

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