tone language in English
noun
1
a language in which variations in pitch distinguish different words.
The Tlingit language is a tone language that has 24 sounds not found in English.
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1. In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate phonetic Allotones
2. In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate phonetic Allotones