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human
ELI5: When people sing in a tonal language (like Chinese), how do they keep the tones in their voice?

I would think it might be hard to sing in a tonal language because in trying to match the song's pitch, it would then be difficult to keep the tones of the language as well, wouldn't it? (Sorry, that's kind of strangely worded but its the only way I can think of to explain it.)
gpt
The short answer is, they don't. You can't really tell the tones when listening to a song. The meaning is usually pretty clear from context.

The tones are basically lost when whispering Chinese too. It's still understandable.