Re: tonal language
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 31, 2004, 18:00 |
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> Did you already created a tonal language?
C'ali is a tone-language, yes. I wrote up a summary of the behavior
of tone for it some time back on this list:
<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405D&L=conlang&P=
R1138&D=0&H=0&O=T&T=1>
Since my exposure to tonal languages in any detail is almost exclusively
through Bantu languages, C'ali's tonal system has a (probably too eery)
similarity to those kinds of systems. If you're interested in learning
more about tone, I would suggest buying/borrowing 'Tone' in the Cambridge
series of textbooks in Linguistics, the one by Moira Yip.
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