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TONAL LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
Synonyms:
tonal language; tone language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tonal language" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Meronyms (parts of "tonal language"):
tonal system; tone system (the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tonal language"):
contour language (a tone language that uses pitch changes)
register language (a tone language that uses different voice registers)
