Re: tonal language

#1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> Does it exists? a nat/conlang in wich tones serve to grammatical uses?
> I also tought to use the stress for a grammatical use
Just noticed this.  I seem to recall (I'm thinking from Matthew
Chen's book on Tone Sandhi in Chinese dialects) that there is a
dialect of some Chinese language that uses tonal changes to mark
pluralization of nouns.

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