Re: What is needed in an conlang classificatory system?

jesse stephen bangs wrote:


>  C. is tone used in the language to convey...
>     1. mainly grammatical features
>     2. mainly instances of emphasis within the spoken flow
>     3. none of the above/not spoken
I once stumbled over this terminology too.  It's only
"tone" if it's lexically or grammatically significant;
otherwise, it's "pitch".  So.

 > C. is pitch used in the language to convey...
 > 1a. mainly lexical distinctions (as in Chinese)
 > 1b. mainly syntactic features (as in some African langs)
 > 2. mainly instances of emphasis within the spoken flow
 > 3. none of the above/not spoken

Or renumber if you like....
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