bahasa tonal

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of bahasa + *tonal, calque of English tonal language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈhasa ˈtonal/

Noun

bahasa tonal (first-person possessive bahasa tonalku, second-person possessive bahasa tonalmu, third-person possessive bahasa tonalnya)

  1. (linguistics) tonal language: languages which use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels

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