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tone language Definition

tone language

noun

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

Browse dictionary entries near tone language

  1. tone down
  2. tone-deaf
  3. tone control
  4. tone color
  5. tone cluster
  6. tone
  7. tondo
  8. tonality
  9. tonal
  10. ton
  1. tone poem
  2. tonearm
  3. toner
  4. tonetic
  5. toney
  6. tong
  7. tonga
  8. Tongan
  9. tongs
  10. tongue