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Tone Language
see synonyms of tone languageNoun
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Tone Language
see synonyms of tone languagenoun
a language, such as Chinese or certain African languages, in which differences in tone may make differences in meaning
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Tone Language
see synonyms of tone language a language, as Chinese or some Bantu or Southeast Asian languages, in which pitch variation is used to distinguish words that would otherwise sound alike
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Tone Language
see synonyms of tone languagen.
A language, as Mandarin or Somali, in which pitch or the pitch contour distinguishes the meanings of words that are otherwise the same phonologically.
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