Now let’s talking about the dimension of sound. Every day,
you uttered every sound is either, the mixer of vowel and tone, or a mixer of
consonant, vowel and tone. Only these two types of sound human can utter. The
only different is some language only regard consonant of these two kinds of
sound as information carriers, some language only regard consonant and vowel as
information carriers, another language is called as tone-language, they regard
all the consonant, vowel and tone are information carriers. So I classify all
speaking language into three different dimensions. The one dimension speaking
language is the language only regard consonant as information carrier, as the
Phoenician language, as the archaeologist only found consonants in their
writing material. Then nearly all the European language can be regard as the
two dimension speaking language. Some of the Asia and Africa language have
tones, they are three dimension speaking languages. The relationship of
dimension is multiplication, so the geometric figure it look like:
2014年4月20日星期日
Another Short History of Linguistics (6)
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