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...