Well, THAT didn't work! Let's try this: <> = secondary, <<>> =
primary, basal unmarked.
<<a>>ma am<<a>>ma p<e>dadz<<a>>mon
Let's see if that works.
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@Y...> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I think pitch is a better word than tone for
> Senyecan. Each speaker, as he learns to speak, discovers the
pitches
> that best suit him. For example, a set of whole notes, say C-D-E.
> Someone else might have a different set: F-G-A. And, of course,
> these pitches would change as the voice matures. It gives the
> language a song-like quality. In my original version, I use an
acute
> accent for the secondary pitch, & the double accent I found in
> Hungarian for the primary pitch. Unfortunately, I don't know how to
> duplicate that in this group. Not much of a problem though. I only
> use it as a guide for speakers of English. The accent marks aren't
> used by the native speakers.
>
> I don't see any way to use italics or bold print here either. Let
me
> use S for seconday, P for primary & B for basal:
>
> ama (mother) amama (maternal grandmother) pedadzamon (footpath)
> P B B P B S B P B
>
> Charlie
>
>
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Joe <joe@W...> wrote:
> > David Peterson wrote:
> >
> > > <<
> > > Verbs, nouns & adjectives have a primary tone on a high pitch.
If
> > > there are 4 or more syllables there is a secondary tone on a
> medium
> > > pitch. The other syllables have a basal tone which is a low
> pitch.
> > > Polysyllabic words in other classes only have secondary and
basal
> > > pitch.
> > > >>
> > >
> > > This doesn't make sense to me. Can you list a couple of
examples?
> > > To me what it sounds like is that you're explaining a stress
> system,
> > > not a tonal system.
> >
> >
> > To be more specific, it sounds like a pitch-accent system. Which
I
> > suppose could be kind of called tonal...