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tone language

tone lan·guage
T t

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [tohn lang-gwij]
    • /toʊn ˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ/
    • /təʊn ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tohn lang-gwij]
    • /toʊn ˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ/

Definitions of tone language words

  • noun tone language 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. 1
  • noun tone language a language, such as Chinese or certain African languages, in which differences in tone may make differences in meaning 0
  • noun tone language a language, as Chinese or some Bantu or Southeast Asian languages, in which pitch variation is used to distinguish words that would otherwise sound alike 0
See all 3 definitions of tone language

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Origin of tone language

First appearance:

before 1905
One of the 15% newest English words
First recorded in 1905-10

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Tone language

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Tone language

tone language popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 67% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

tone language usage trend in Literature

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