Tone language

Definition

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).

See also

• Tone

Links

• Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Other languages

• German Tonsprache

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