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Re: tonal languages?

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2003, 19:30
--- Etak <tarnagona@...> wrote:
> I'll try and explain what I was thinking. > Suppose > you were in a dark room and you said, "I can't > see. I > need light." Now I was thinking that using my > tonal > language you might have the noun "light" and > the verb > "to see" as the same word with different tones.
Don't see why you can't do that.
> I > want to make my language inflecting too. So > you might > be able to say, "I can't see. I need light/to > see," > because you would use the infinitive form of > the verb > "to see" but with the tone that says that the > word is actually "light".
Mightn't that be interpreted as "I need to light" then? Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .