Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

On Thursday, September 27, 2001, at 01:00 PM, joe wrote:

> Idea: a purely tonal language, with one letter (a) but with about 50
> different tones?
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.

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.

> naÿa me iow
> auf wiedersehn
(wiedersehen?)
Or perhaps, for the internet, auf wiedertippen!

> au revoir
> do widzenia
> Dyeu wiyu
> Jiu uiiu
annyeong (I hope no one's offended by the informal mode)
hasta luego
sayonara

YHL

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