Do you like tonal languages??

i will give a lame ass south american version of asian weather report so you can rate our accents please wait almost there

Is it true that there are Chinese languages with 8 tones? How does that even work?

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i didnt balance audio because i dont want work im not payed

For me a beach and a bitch is the same.

Contour and pitch

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Yes. Wait a time. Because I woking my job now.

>Iau is the most tonally complex Lakes Plain language. Unlike other Lakes Plain languages which can be disyllabic or trisyllabic, Iau word structure is predominantly monosyllabic. Iau has eight phonemic tones, transcribed by Bateman using numerical tone numbers (with 1 high and 5 low, as in much of Africa and America but the opposite of the convention used with Asian languages): two level tones (low and high), two rising tones (low rising and high rising), three falling tones (high-low, high-mid, and mid-low), and one falling-rising tone. Phonetically, these are:[3]

>high 2 [˦]
>mid 3 [˧]
>high rising 21 [˦˥]
>low rising 43 [˨˧]
>high–low falling 24 [˦˨]
>high–mid falling 23 [˦˧]
>mid–low falling 34 [˧˨]
>falling–rising 243 [˦˨˧]
>A sequence of two tones (called a tone cluster) may occur on one syllable. There are eleven tone clusters that can occur on verbs to mark aspect; only three of these can occur on nouns.

>Some minimal sets in Iau illustrating phonemic tonal contrasts:[3]

>be˦ 'father-in-law'
>be˧ 'fire'
>be˦˥ 'snake'
>be˨˧ 'path'
>be˦˨ 'thorn'
>be˦˧ 'flower'
>be˧˨ 'small eel'
>be˦˨˧ 'tree fern'
>te˦ 'pig wallow'
>te˧ 'mosquito'
>te˦˥ 'man'
>te˨˧ 'edible tuber'
>te˦˨ 'calf of leg'
>te˦˧ 'inlet of body of water'
>te˧˨ 'flooring'
>Examples of monosyllabic words with the three 'compound' tones are /da˧˦˧/ 'mountain', /oi˦˥˧/ 'hand' and /sae˨˧˦˧/ 'knife'.

>There is downdrift after low (3) and falling tones, and also of (24) following (243). A high-rising (21) tone rises slightly after another.

>Tone is lexical on nouns, pronouns, numerals, prepositions and other parts of speech, but verbs are unmarked for tone. In verbs, each tone represents a different aspect or aktionsart. The complex system of aspectual marking via tone is discussed in Bateman (1986).

they're for brainlets as evidenced by the map

Also they have their own website:
yavba.net/en/our-own-iau-home-page

this is fucking ridiculous

What the fuck is pitch accent

Pitch accent:
>Only one syllable per word has meaningful tone

Tonal:
>More than one syllable per word may have meaningful tone

Word tone (which is what many of the languages here has, including Norwegian to my knowledge):
>More than one syllable per word may have meaningful tone, but there are heavy restrictions on what type of tone combinations can occur on a word.

This is very simplified but that's the gist of the distinction.

To be honest, it sounds similar.
Fitist of all, don't South America countries use Spanish except Brazil?

Sounds are softly good. But i can't find difference.