Re: Let me introduce my conlang

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...

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