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TONE LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tone language mean? 

TONE LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun TONE LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a language in which different tones distinguish different meaningsplay

  Familiarity information: TONE LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TONE LANGUAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A language in which different tones distinguish different meanings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

tonal language; tone language

Hypernyms ("tone 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 "tone 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 "tone language"):

contour language (a tone language that uses pitch changes)

register language (a tone language that uses different voice registers)


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