Is a hypertonal language an absolutely terrible idea? I'm thinking of making a conlang for a race of vaguely water related (maybe) entities, and so I want to make a language that flows from one idea to the next, and so the language will have no stops. I've picked 11 unvoiced consonants to be my syllable onsets, and the rhyme part of this whole mess will be a single vowel. The language will be highly agglutinative. Now for the actual question bit. I want to have 10 vowels (basically English long and short vowels) and then 6 register tones. Is this number of tones a bad idea? The 6 tones are constant, rising, falling, rise-fall, fall-rise, and fall-rise-fall. Is this a terrible idea that I should scrap immediately? Or does it have promise?