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| tone lan·guage (plural tone lan·guages) |
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language in which tone affects meaning: a language in which the meaning of a fixed sequence of sounds depends on the pitch in which it is pronounced, different tones identifying different words. Tone languages include the Bantu languages of Africa and Chinese.
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