That's a fitting comparison considering that tones in Chinese and neighboring languages like Vietnamese may have developed from final consonants: https://en.wik

That's a fitting comparison considering that tones in Chinese and neighboring languages like Vietnamese may have developed from final consonants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology#Tones_and_final_consonants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology#Tones_an...