[Lingtyp] Tonal inventories: High vs Extra-High

[ARNOLD Laura]

Dear colleagues,

Does anyone know how frequent two-tone inventories contrasting only High and Extra-High are? I’m working with data from a language which has an inventory that can possibly be analysed this way (the two tones also contrast with toneless syllables). I suspect this is quite an unusual inventory, cross-linguistically – it would be helpful to confirm this. I would also be interested to hear about similar examples elsewhere in the world.

Many thanks,
Laura

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