WordNet
tonal language
n. a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings [syn: tone language]
Usage examples of "tonal language".
Sue had made the most progress over the winter with Tidtaway's dialect, which by happenstance was a tonal language like the Cantonese she half remembered from her father's efforts to teach.
Darkwind still wasn't fluent in Gryphon, it was a very tonal language, and hard to master.
An obelisk, with raised pictograms that described a tonal language.
Her voice rose and swayed with the lilting accents of a tonal language.