Ancient Greek was a musical language, and the meaning of words changed depending on the pitches assigned to a syllable ... In the 3rd century BC the perispomena was introduced in order to mark a certain pitch and tone length which is no longer known today.
Can you imagine slightly singing everything you had to say? And pitch-shifting changing the meaning of words? All I can think of today is sarcasm, which is pretty limited. Really wish we could hear what Ancient Greek sounded like.
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Mandarin, Vietnamese, Punjabi are all tonal languages, and lots more (including the germanic languages) have tonal featureshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIoR80nR48 …
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I am just fetishising Greek :)
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it reminds me too of this: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/06/28/the-masters-voice/ … a shame the meaning of the notation is lost
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