Re: Tonal IE languages

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Also Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovene, Serbian and Croatian have pitch

accent (tonal contrasts in accented syllables). Ancient Greek had it
too. Danish has no pitch accent, but its "sto/d" is a related
phenomenon.

>
> None of these languages (including Punjabi, Swedish and Norwegian)

is truly tonal. Technically speaking, they are pitch-accent languages.

>
> Piotr

How would you define a tonal language? Norwegian and Swedish has
hundreds of word pairs solely distinguished by tone.