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One of attributes of human language our writing systems barely reflect is tone. Roger Williams observed there was another layer to the indigenous languages he was attempting to capture in that there was not just sound but pitch involved. He never believed he captured all of it. Much of the intonation level information is thought be lost, extinct or reconstructed. The parts of language that are not written phonetically tend to change rapidly between population groups, and that leads to…..

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