Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>Another idea I've toyed with is a "chordal" language, whose speakers could
>produce multiple pitches and articulations simultaneously; words would
>consist of chords, series of chords would produce sentences.  I'm sure
>there are other ways to cut the pie, though.

I seem to recall that there is such a one; listed in the links at Mark
Rosenfelder's _zompist_ site, or someone else's similar site.....All but
impossible for us lowly humans.

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