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minus-square nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink1•11 months agoI know you already got it but a few others came to my mind: Finnish, which not a tonal language: Sinä pidät kahvista. (“You like coffee.”) Pidätkö kahvista? (“You like coffee?”) Japanese: Anata wa kōhī ga sukidesu. (“You like coffee.”) Kōhī wa sukidesu ka? (“You like coffee?”) I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.
minus-square Anamana ( @Anamana@feddit.de ) linkfedilink2•11 months agoYeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)
minus-square nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink2•11 months agoOh. Very good point. I did not know that either.
I know you already got it but a few others came to my mind:
Finnish, which not a tonal language:
Japanese:
I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.
Yeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)
Oh. Very good point. I did not know that either.