Tone language

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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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