Sentence examples for has five tones from inspiring English sources

It has five tones, not four.

Three pathet may be generated by each of the music's scale systems: slendro, which has five tones spaced at virtually equidistant intervals; and pelog, a nonequidistant seven-tone system.

Cantonese has six tones, and Min Chinese dialects seven or eight.

Modern Standard Chinese has four tones, while the more archaic Cantonese language uses at least six tones, as did Ancient Chinese.

Mandarin, the biggest language in the Chinese family, has four tones, so that what sounds just like "ma" in English has four distinct sounds, and meanings.

Hakka, like Cantonese, has six tones to distinguish meaning between words or word elements with the same series of consonants and vowels.

The style was also based on the principle that the voice has two "tones," a diapason tone produced when the larynx is in a relatively low position, and a flute tone when the larynx assumes a higher position.

So and Best (2010, 2011, 2014) have applied the PAM to auditory Mandarin target tones; Mandarin has four tones, which are maximally distinctive in tone space.

Most scales have five tones with equidistant intervals, and melodies have a range of one octave or less.

Repeat these steps, saving with different titles and names, not changing artist or album, until you have five tones lasting thirty seconds.

Bob Herbert has one tone of voice, and as often as outrage is called for, it's also tiresome.