Re: tonal languages

Etak wrote:

> I
> want to make my language inflecting too.  So
> you might
> be able to say, "I can't see.  I need light/to
> see,"
> because you would use the infinitive form of
> the verb
> "to see" but with the tone that says that the
> word is actually "light".
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

Mightn't that be interpreted as "I need to light"
then?

   I guess it would, wouldn't it?  Perhaps if the word
in question had a syllable appended to it to indicate
that the word has two meanings, it would work?
---Etak

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