tone language

What does tone language mean?

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

What is another word for tone language?

Close synonyms include tonal 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 tone language a common word?

tone 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tone language come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.