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Linguistics 4 My Tonology Hypothesis 2

Igbo words for the feared mostly high tone Perfectly matching what rattles The Bone Her lexis for Death, Python, Snake - Fire And it’s like speaker screaming, pitch higher! So also Poison’s, Madness’ - ‘The Unpleasant’ Anger’s, Bullet’s - one can’t call The Pleasant A Language quite tonally consistent With ideas that The Pitch makes insistent… Still stops not here The High-High tone feature, For it does reflect on Paired-Up feature: Igbo words for Two Eyes, Hands, Legs – nostrils… Linguists had better like me feel the thrills.

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