Examples of tone language

• The degree of correspondence would be the least if the language were a tone language.

• None had previous exposure to a tone language at any time in life.

• Xhosa has also been traditionally described as a tone language.

• The significance of these results for tonogenesis is discussed, as well as their relevance for the notion of ' tone language '.

• It is a tone language with three tones, high, mid and low.

• Zapotec is a tone language, which means that the meaning of a word is often determined by voice pitch.

• It is a tone language with noun classes.

• Although the same or similar tonological processes are attested in geographically unrelated tone languages, this is not to say that all tone languages are alike.

• Thus, tone languages do not generally have complex intonation systems.

• In addition, she is highly acclaimed for her work on absolute pitch, or perfect pitch, which she has shown is far more prevalent among speakers of tone language.

• And that it uses no appropriate, conformist tone language, a language to be seriously understood today, seems to me its greatest mistake, indeed, may be a fatal one.

• Zapotec is a tone language, which means that the meaning of a word is often determined by voice pitch (tonemes), essential for understanding the meaning of different words.

• To avoid potential conflict between the two, tone languages resort to strategies that are not commonly used in non-tonal languages.

• The literature, including broad surveys of tone systems and detailed treatments of particular tone languages, manifests virtually every imaginable position that could be taken on the phonological representation of tone.

• Tones are phonemic in tone languages.