Tone (linguistics)

language family of West Africa

use of pitch to differentiate words in a language

Bantu language of Zambia and Zimbabwe

word accent in which the prominent syllable(s) are indicated by a contrasting pitch rather than by loudness

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symbol or mark representing the tone of a preceding or succeeding syllable

Sanskrit language feature

phonetic feature of some languages

Japanese language feature

Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first.

pitch accent system of the proto-Indo-European language

linguistics term; name assigned to a tone type in tonal languages

linguistic term