Interesting; I may submit if I can think of anything.
What vowels are there? Do you have specific latin characters assigned
to them?
-M
JS Bangs wrote:
[snip]
>
> Here's the goods (this has been posted with little change before):
>
> There are six tones in Hiksi, plus a vowel length distinction that's
> relevant. For short vowels there is a simple two-way distinction: High
> tone v. low tone. For long vowels all six tones come into play:
>
> Low (22)
> Rising (24)
> Mid (33)
> High (55)
> High-falling (453)
> Low-falling (231)
>
> (The numbers in parentheses indicate the general shape of the tone
> contours on a 5-point scale)
>
> All words contain a tone break, before which are "upper" tones and after
> which are "lower" tones. Various morphological processes will move the
> tone break and shift the tones from lower to upper, according to these
> correspondences:
>
> Short Low > Hi
> Long Low > Rising
> Mid > High
> Low-fall > Hi-fall
>
> [snip]