Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 23:15 |
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In a message dated 9/27/01 12:58:07 PM, josephhill@NTLWORLD.COM writes:
<< Idea: a purely tonal language, with one letter (a) but with about 50
different tones? >>
I had an idea about creating a language with one "word", "beep" [bip]
with five separate tones, vowel length (both short, mid and long), possible
reduplication [bibip] and adding of the glide [bijip]. I got too frustrated
with it. 50 distinguishable tones? Is such a thing humanly possible?
-David