#tonal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tonal, aggregated by home.social.
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Tsewang Lhamo, a #Tibetan singer I discovered on Youtube many years ago. #Mandarin is actually more similar to Tibetan languages (than to Cantonese) as they both have 4 tones (Cantonese has 6 tones). The 4-tone system is more "primitive", not just because of the lack of tones, but because with 6 tones (with flat and rising or falling tones), a language can be sung or spoken using the #pentatonic scale. I believe "true" #tonal #languages arose from the pentatonic scale.
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Kindred Ventures just closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments - Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-se... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/K4f8ltkwiEk/ #kindredventures #clubhouse #coinbase #zymergen #tonal #dydx #otto #tc