• 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 :)