<p>Artifexian has a decent pair of videos (<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=XE4FrF5U0E0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">#1</a>, <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=iaHYIXBvL94" rel="nofollow noreferrer">#2</a>) on tones which discusses various types of tone systems, how they work in natural languages, how they developed there, and ways you could work them in to a diachronic approach to conlanging. I don't think it discusses conlangs that do have tone systems though.</p>
<p>The Wikipedia page for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_tones_(Middle_Chinese)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Four Tones (Middle Chinese)</a> also does a decent job of discussing the evolution of tone across the Sinitic languages.</p>

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Tristan
<p>What resources are there on tone system creation?
Resources could include</p>
<ul>
<li>Documentation on conlangs that have tone systems</li>
<li>Guides on tone system creation</li>
<li>Resources on tone in natural languages, for a posteriori naturalistic conlang creation</li>
</ul>

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What resources are there on tone system creation?
# What resources are there on tone system creation?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-12)

What resources are there on tone system creation?
Resources could include

* Documentation on conlangs that have tone systems
* Guides on tone system creation
* Resources on tone in natural languages, for a posteriori naturalistic conlang creation

**Tags:** list-of-languages, resource-request

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-04-13. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

Artifexian has a decent pair of videos ([#1](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XE4FrF5U0E0), [#2](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iaHYIXBvL94)) on tones which discusses various types of tone systems, how they work in natural languages, how they developed there, and ways you could work them in to a diachronic approach to conlanging. I don't think it discusses conlangs that do have tone systems though.

The Wikipedia page for [Four Tones (Middle Chinese)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_tones_(Middle_Chinese)) also does a decent job of discussing the evolution of tone across the Sinitic languages.


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