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    TONE LANGUAGE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A language in which different tones distinguish different meaningsplay

    Synonyms:

    tonal language; tone language

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("tone language" is a kind of...):

    natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

    Meronyms (parts of "tone language"):

    tonal system; tone system (the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tone language"):

    contour language (a tone language that uses pitch changes)

    register language (a tone language that uses different voice registers)

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