LisNoir wrote: DO you have any links where I can read about that? It sounds interesting.
Hmm, not that I know of. I studied the wave frequency of languages when I was at university and I never used the net (I belong to the library-searching generation). But you may find something under the studies of Auditory Phonetics and Psychoacoustic, mainly by Hardcastle, or Andrea Marini. But some more famous linguists did deal with the matter too, like Jackobson and Noam Chomsky (my idol. If possible, I love him more than Hyun Bin, lol).
For now, suffice to know that each language - being made of articulated sounds - moves at a different wave length. The frequency of peaks and low points is the result of the way the language has to be pronounced and is at this stage independent from the voice of the speaker. English, for example, has a lower frequency than, say French, and Russian is even lower. The same person will inevitably speak with a graver voice when speaking Russian than when speaking French and this is due to the wave length.
Chinese is a tonal language inasmuch it bases not only sounds but meanings on the intonation. Basically, raising your voice at the wrong moment makes you say something different from what you intended. This is why to our ears it sounds as if they were chanting a spell instead of speaking, with high pitches and such.
I'm afraid I expressed myself very poorly here. Sorry.
