TONE LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A language in which different tones distinguish different meanings

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)