Sentence examples for tone language from inspiring English sources

Its tone, language, and story belong to children's literature.

Navajo is a tone language, meaning that pitch helps distinguish words.

Mr. freeman's posture, tone, language and something deeper speak volumes about generations of racial subservience.

Some linguists believe that Proto-Afro-Asiatic was a tone language and that daughter languages such as Semitic, Amazigh, and possibly Egyptian subsequently lost all tonal distinctions.

Hausa is a tone language, a classification in which pitch differences add as much to the meaning of a word as do consonants and vowels.

In The New Yorker, James Wood called The Goldfinch "a virtual baby", "a fairy tale" whose "tone, language, and story belong to children's literature".

Unlike some members of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, Berber languages are not tone languages.

Languages of this area are characterized by pronounced high and low pitch tones (tone languages), a quality exploited when two drums a lower-pitched, or male, drum and a higher-pitched, or female, one transmit low and high tones, respectively.

Thus, long periods of contact with speakers of genuine African tone languages of Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan stock may have assisted the historical shift from pitch accent to tone systems in Afro-Asiatic.

There is relatively little research on other types of phonetic segments, such as lexical tone, even though tone languages are very well represented across languages of the world.

This may be particularly challenging in tone languages as learners have to develop tone representations in the face of intonational variation in order to accurately recognize words.