The Art of Language Invention, Episode 27: The Evolution of Tone

This video discusses two strategies for evolving tone in a naturalistic conlang.

EDIT: Uhhhh...it should obviously be "ruedo", not "rodo". Don't even know wtf I was thinking... lol Maybe think of that as Spanish from the 1300s...

LINKS:

(1) 1:30: Consonant Cluster and Coda Evolution: The Art of Language Invention, Episod...

(2) 2:49: That should be "ruedo". So embarrassed... However, given the other sound changes I used, the correct form wouldn't result in a minimal tonal contrast, so let's just pretend it comes from a long ō in Latin for this...

(3) 6:30: On Opposite Tones in Related Languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(l...

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