Tonal

/ˈtoʊnəl/

Synonyms for "tonal" (126 found)

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Closest matches (26)

accented alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral checked chromatic close consonant consonantal continuant

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dental dissimilated

Noun(2 words)

classical adjectiveclassical music composition

Adjective(2 words)

color-based diatonic

Strong matches (37)

dorsal droning enharmonic flat front glide glossal glottal guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labiodental labiovelar lateral lax light lingual

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liquid low mid monophthongal monotone monotonic

Verb(4 words)

equalizing inflected intoned murmured

Noun(1 words)

gradient

Adjective(5 words)

greek tonosharmonic key-based luminance-basedmajor scale

Adverb(1 words)

most frequent value

Related words (63)

Adjective(9 words)

musical earnuanced pitch-based pythagorean register-based stylistic tone-based tone-related tonic

muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open oxytone palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched posttonic retroflex rounded semitonic

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Noun(4 words)

pitching tenoroontone based descriptortoning

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

4 entries

linguistic featurelinguistic stylemusical attributevisual property

More specific

10 entries

academic toneconversational toneformal tonehigh-key imageinformal tonelow-key imagemajor-key musicminor-key musictonal languagetone language

Collocations

6 entries

tonal analysistonal centertonal harmonytonal languagetonal palettetonal range

Inflections

2 entries

more tonalmost tonal

Derivations

5 entries

tonalism tonalistic tonality tonalize tonally

Antonyms

1 entries

atonal

similar

5 entries

diatonic keyed polytonal toned tonic

Sample sentences

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Chinese is a tonal language.

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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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