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0 pointsschoen7y ago0 comments

Somewhat unusually for Indo-European, Swedish is literally a tonal language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Stress_and_p...

(that is, there are word pairs that are distinguished only by tone)

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Punjabi is also classified as Indo-European language and it is also a very strong tonal language. The topic is also a subject of research as none of surrounding languages have such tonal variations.

_emacsomancer_7y ago

There's a correlation between (loss of) aspiration and tones in Punjabi.

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