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单词 tone language
释义

tone language


noun

a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.

Origin of tone language

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby tone language

tone control, tone-deaf, tone dialing, tone down, Tonegawa, tone language, toneless, toneme, tone painting, tone poem, tone policing
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British Dictionary definitions for tone language

tone language

noun

a language, such as Chinese or certain African languages, in which differences in tone may make differences in meaning
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