Hey people, I am thinking about creating a tonal language but I don' t really speak one yet and I am not an expert on classifying tones phonetically...
OK, so these are the tones that I would like to use in my conlang:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1KDtAreBpoC
can you help me to describe the tone contour (for example 41) and show me the right IPA symbols to display the tones that I use?
(I am pretty sure that I am going to use No. 1 to No. 5, but maybe I will leave out No. 6 as I do not want to re-invent Chinese and avoid to have to many high tones)
(BTW for those who don't know me from other forums: I wonder if you can guess my nationality by listening to my foreign accent in English... I would pay attention to my voicing and my intonation...
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Some Ideas I have:
As for lexical words, I would like to use only 4 tones: two falling and two falling-rising tones. In each subset, one tone should be high and the other one should be low, i.e. there should be a high-falling, a low-falling, a high falling-rising and a low falling-rising tone. The fifth tone (I call it the "low drop") I would just use for grammatical words like conjunctions, and the sixth tone just in the end of a sentence to mark questions.