tonal language

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tonal language - a language in which different tones distinguish different meaningstone languagenatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer languagecontour language - a tone language that uses pitch changesregister language - a tone language that uses different voice registerstonal system, tone system - the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language