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Noun Concept

Categories: All articles needing additional references, Tone (linguistics), Tonal languages, Articles with short description, Linguistics terminology

tone tonal language tonogenesis Bottom tone Extra-high tone

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages WordNet 3.0

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(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. Wikipedia

The pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages Wikipedia Disambiguation

Language in which tones have lexical or grammatical meaning Wikidata

Use of pitch to differentiate words in a language Wikidata

The appearance of contrasting tone in a previously non-tonal language OmegaWiki

A language where a high-low pitch pattern is permanently associated with the meaning of words. OmegaWiki

The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese. Wiktionary

Pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning. Wiktionary (translation)

The Beijing dialect uses four tones WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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stress-timed language

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

tone

Wikipedia

tone (linguistics)

Wikidata

tonal language, tone

Wiktionary

tone

OmegaWiki

tonal language, tonogenesis

Wikipedia Redirections

Bottom tone, Extra-high tone, Extra-low tone, Falling–rising tone, Gliding tone, grammatical tone, high tone, lexical tone, Lexical tones, List of Tonal Languages, low tone, mid tone, phonemic tone, pitch level, register tone, Rising–falling tone, Syllable tone, tonal (linguistics), tonal accent, tonal languages, Tonal polarity, Tone (Linguistics), Tone accent, Tone group, tone languages, tone mark, tone marks, Tone unit, toneme, tonemes, Tonemic, Tonemics, Tonetic, Tonetics, tonogenesis, Tonology, Top tone, word tone

Wikidata Alias

linguistics of tone