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Definitions of toneme in various dictionaries:
A type of phoneme that occurs in languages that use tone to convey differences in lexical meaning.
adj - a tonal unit of speech [n -S] : TONEMIC
TONEME - Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verb al language...
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Phonetic sound with a particular intonation |
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Apr 23 2016 Newsday.com |
May 3 2015 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
Mar 18 2012 Boston Globe |
Jan 5 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
Feb 28 1997 New York Times |
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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Languages that do have this feature are called tonal languages; the distinctive tone patterns of such a language are sometimes called tonemes, by analogy with phoneme. Tonal languages are common in Africa, East Asia, and Mexico, but rare elsewhere in Asia and in Europe; as many as seventy percent of world languages may be tonal.In many tonal African languages, such as most Bantu languages, tones are distinguished by their pitch level relative to each other, known as a register tone system. In multisyllable words, a single tone may be carried by the entire word rather than a |