0 a language in which the same series of sounds can represent different meanings, depending on how high or low they are spoken:
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.
