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Conlangery #84: Delason

Conlangery Podcast

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WH Questions Have a Falling Pitch

There are languages that have both a phonemic script and logograms. These are, these are been somehow reduced all the way just to ideograms. So I don't know if that happens as much, but I could, it's something I could see happening. One thing I wanted to mention really quick is I always like to look at little phonological things. A falling pitch denotes the completeness of the thought being uttered. This arising pitch is also used with exclamations and yes, no questions.

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