Re: tonal language

Did you already created a tonal language?

Because I suppose that most of you, if not all of you, don't speak a tonal
language as first tongue, and maybe don't speak a tonal language at all

So I don't know how you deal to create a tonal language

Do you restrain yourself to the only use of tones you'll be able to
recognize?

like only low, mid, and high tone or only rising and falling wich are most
easily recognizable

and avoid the use of High rising, low rising, mid rising or high
rising-falling, low rising-falling wich are harder to differenciate


Also I know that, like in mandarin, tones serve to differentiate different
words (like "ma" wich can means "mother" or "horse" depending of the tone,
if I remember)

But is it possible to use it for conjugaison or an other grammatical use
because I thought about representing moods by changing the word's tones but
I made it with a suffix, because I encountered the problem that I would not
myself recognize the similar tones

But I also think to use tones for things wich will need less tones

I think it would be less difficult than using it for completely different
words because if a tone is misunderstood it conduct to less ambuiguity to
understand the wrong mood or the wrong tense than understand "horse" instead
of "mother" or something else like this because it's a worse mistake

Does it exists? a nat/conlang in wich tones serve to grammatical uses?

Is it an ANADEW as Sally Caves explained?


I also tought to use the stress for a grammatical use

I tought like making each verbs trisyllabic and that the tense would depend
of the stress position

Is it an (other) ANADEW?

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