This is a presentation of a typlological database of tonal languages: ThoTDB, available online at https://thot.huma-num.fr/db/. The database contains the most comprehensive data on which languages in the world are tonal, detailed structured descriptions of tonal systems for a typologically diverse sample of languages, accompanied with short texts with detailed tonal markup that allows to compute tonal density indices.
How many tonal languages are out there in the world? If you need an estimate based on most comprehensive database to date, here it is: 42.7%. Concisely on a poster presented today at the #OCP22 conference in Amsterdam: zenodo.org/records/1481.... The database itself is online and has more ↓
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