tonal language

1. 1.

   a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings

   Synonymstone language

   Broadernatural language

   Narrowercontour languageregister language

   Partstone system

Questions about tonal language

What does tonal language mean?

tonal language means "a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings".

What is another word for tonal language?

Close synonyms include tone language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tonal language a common word?

tonal language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.