Thread:Argali1/@comment-26535281-20160830005207/@comment-26184570-20160830005843

Cool. Have you seen Omniglot?

Japanese doesn't have tones, but it has vowel-stress differences. Korean has two tones, Mandarin has four tones, Thai has five tones, Vietnamese has six tones and Cantonese has nine tones. Mandarin and Cantonese are related, but the remainder are not only unrelated to the first two, but also to eachother. Korean is part of the Korean family, Japanese the Japonic family, Thai the Thai-Kadai family and Vietnamese the Austroasiatic family.