tone language
Noun
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A language in which different tones distinguish different meanings (synset 106917719)
is a type of: natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer languagesubtypes:
- contour language - a tone language that uses pitch changes
- register language - a tone language that uses different voice registers
has: tonal system, tone system - the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone languagesame as: tonal language
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