SIGN O THE TIMES BLOGTALK RADIO w Wise Owl Will I Am & Queen Tahiyrah

SIGN O THE TIMES BLOGTALK RADIO w Wise Owl Will I Am & Queen Tahiyrah Tuesday February 13, 2018

English.. Is it the Language of the Dead? What is the difference between the "Language of the Dead" and a "Dead Language"?

Normally the transition from a spoken to an extinctlanguage occurs when a language undergoeslanguage death by being directly replaced by a different one. For example, some Native Americanlanguages were replaced by English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, or Dutch as a result of colonization.

What are the tonal languages?

Many Asian languages are tone languages, such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Punjabi. ... In some languages, it is pitch accent that is important instead. That means that a word's meaning can be different if a different syllable is stressed.

Is the English language tonal?

English is a non-tonal language. Thus it sounds very different from tone languages such Chinese or Vietnamese. In tone languages pitch is used to distinguish word meaning. So a word said with high pitch may have a different meaning than the same word said with a low pitch.