Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

Quoting Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> At 3:16 am -0400 28/9/01, Adam Walker wrote:
> >FIFTY TONES!!!  Egads!  I thought mine with 11 tones was horrid!
> >
> >Adam
>
> Yes, 50 does seem a bit much, at least for us humans.
>
> SolReSol had no vowels or consonants 'cause it just used the notes of
> the common major scale.  You could psay "bip" or "mip" or whatever to each
> note if you wished.  But it could equally well be hummed or whistled.
An interesting project idea:  create a Solresol-Prime where the
kind of combination of regular speech and whistles and hums is
allophonically (or maybe: morphophonemically determined) by the
tone involved.

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