Re: loglang vocab again

--- Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...> wrote:
> Is there a language with a record number of tones? I
> know Vietnamese and Cantonese have six.
>
I'm not sure about a reacord, but Taiwanese has six
currently and seven historically.

Some Cantonese claim nine tones for Cantonese, though
the extra three are distinguished by length of the
vowel and presence of a stop-final rather than an
actual difference in tone.

I believe some Wu dialects have as many as eight,
while others only have five.

I'm not sure what other oddities may exist out there,
but I invented a lang with eleven tones once.  It had
something like 18 vowels, eleven tones, three phonemic
lengths, four voice qualities and no consonants which
meant 2376 unique monosyllables were possible.  It was
spoken by aliens.

Adam

> If English had clicks (as in Bushman), what would
> they sound like? (Bushman, I think, has over 100
phonemes.)


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