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Conlangery #81: Tone

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Mandarin Chinese Tone Changes

Mandarin Chinese has a pitch register system. The third tone is either tone, Sunday to way or you get the low creaky voice. So it wouldn't surprise me to get a system of more than three tones where they were flat. I've not actually seen something that does that.

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