Re: loglang vocab again

John Cowan wrote:
> Garth Wallace scripsit:
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>>>Is there a language with a record number of tones? I know Vietnamese and
>>>Cantonese have six.
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>>I thought Cantonese had eight.
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> 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.
Wait...how can a tone be a morpheme by itself?

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