Chinese is a tonal language.
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Tonal
//ˈtoʊnəl//
Synonyms for "tonal" (103 found)
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Antonyms
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1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- тонален adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
Catalan
1 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
Dutch
1 entries- tonaal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
Finnish
3 entries- tonaalinen adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonaalinen adj (employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic)
- tonaalinen adj (employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning)
French
1 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
German
3 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonal adj (employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic)
- tonal adj (employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning)
Irish
3 entries- tonúil adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonúil adj (employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic)
- tonúil adj (employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning)
Italian
2 entries- tonale adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonale adj (employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning)
Portuguese
1 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
Romanian
2 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonal adj (employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning)
Russian
2 entries- то́новый adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- тона́льный adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
Spanish
2 entries- tonal adj (of or relating to tones or tonality)
- tonal adj (employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic)
Sample sentences
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Dogri is a tonal language, which makes it rare among Indo-European languages.
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How do you learn a tonal language like Chinese?
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My conlang Vling is a tonal language, and each tone corresponds to a part of speech.
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