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In some languages (mainly found in South-East Asia and Africa), the tone carried by a word determines the meaning of that word (i.e. lexical tone). Thus, tone languages use tonal contrasts to distinguish word meanings or grammatical categories (such as tense).
Links
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
Other languages
German Tonsprache
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