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tone language  noun LinguisticsA language in which variations in pitch distinguish different words.The Tlingit language is a tone language that has 24 sounds not found in English....- What we needed, then, were real examples of spontaneously written text in a tone language that, like Efik, has no written literary tradition of its own.
- Krio is non-rhotic, syllable-timed, and a tone language.
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