Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

Nik Taylor wrote:
>Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I actually considered that with "meep" [mip] since I do have perfect
>pitch
> > =^) but decided it was too much of a hassle, especially if anyone else
> > were to understand it.  (Besides, I already meep at random people.)
>It'd
> > be a fun concept for an alien conlang, though.
>
>My conpeople have very sensitive pitch perception, and I once toyed with
>the idea of a conlang that would take advantage of that.  It would have,
>say, 12 consonants, 5 vowels, only CV syllables, but 50 tones, allowing
>for 3000 syllables.  :-)
In other words, you didn't intend to allow syllables only consisting of a
vowel! That'd be slightly remarkable, wouldn't it?

                                                     Andreas


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