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- W4238914668 abstract "Among the sounds of languages, consonants and vowels need no explanation to the lay person, but tones are another matter entirely. Tell someone you are writing a book about ‘Tone’, and they look blank, and yet by some estimates as much as 60–70 per cent of the world's languages are tonal. Begin to explain that you are interested in languages that use the pitch of the voice to convey meaning, and more often than not you will be interrupted with a remark such as ‘Oh, that must be really interesting: those emotions and nuances and subtleties are so important when we're speaking!’ Politely explain that actually you are interested in languages that use pitch to distinguish one word from another, not just to convey subtleties, and most people will assume that such languages are rare, and probably spoken only by isolated communities in less developed countries – until you point out that Mandarin Chinese (885,000,000 speakers), Yoruba (20,000,000) and Swedish (9,000,000) are all tonal." @default.
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- W4238914668 title "Introduction" @default.
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