I mean I can’t and I’m not racist.
Til Thai is also a tonal language. It has 5 tones.
Most Sino-Tibetan languages (including most modern Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese varieties), all Kra-Dai languages (including Thai and Lao), all Hmong-Mien languages, and a few other languages near the region (specifically, Vietnamese and Tsat) have tones. Japonic and Koreanic languages both have tones, but historically they’ve been very simplistic with only 2 tones (pitch accent) although Middle Korean developed 3 tones which then went back to 2. Pitch accent is entirely eliminated in Seoul Korean though. Hmong-Mien languages are the most tonal languages in the world, with up to 12 tones in some languages.
Tones generally seem to be a highly contagious areal feature, interestingly enough. At least in southeast Asian languages, an important shared feature between them was the reduction or loss of final consonants which usually ended up in a tonal system.
12 tones? that’s an octave!
Sorry, 12 semitones
dude some of us have smaller tones ok don’t tone shame
I actually know the differences between Asian languages just so that I can be better at racism.
I take it very seriously.
there’s a lot of people who are racers, but this man is the racIST
Ahh, the counterpart to casual racism: ranked competitive racism
You learned to dance like that sarcastically?
I’ll be honest, I doubt racists can differentiate between Spanish and any Asian Language
Your comment reminded me of this gem of a candidate. Some of y’all gotta remember–the 2010 candidate for Nevada’s Senate seat who thought a reasonable alternative to Obamacare was bartering chickens and the like.
Oh god I remember this…
Did he just not know that healthcare bills cost in the thousands and the only thing people have that would equal that in value would be their house or car? Or was he being facetious and just coming up with excuses? I can’t tell the difference between “stupid” and “evil” anymore.
Isn’t that one of the main jokes in the Borat movies? When the characters are yelling at each other in Kazakh it’s all a mixture of Hebrew, Bulgarian, polish, Armenian, Romanian, and a ton of other phrases and sayings?
How ridiculous! Next thing that dude is going to tell me, Asia is not a country!
Well if you speak Tagalog, they’ll hate you for being Mexican.
