• araozu@lemm.ee
      6·
      8 months ago

      Maybe

      • I do like cats
      • Do I like cats?

      but taken to the extreme?

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      8 months ago

      I know you already got it but a few others came to my mind:

      Finnish, which not a tonal language:

      • Sinä pidät kahvista. (“You like coffee.”)
      • Pidätkö kahvista? (“You like coffee?”)

      Japanese:

      • Anata wa kōhī ga sukidesu. (“You like coffee.”)
      • Kōhī wa sukidesu ka? (“You like coffee?”)

      I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.

      • Anamana@feddit.de
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)