Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the phonemes of a tone language by which tone conveys differences in lexical meaning.
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- noun linguistics a
phoneme in alanguage that uses differenttones for differentmeanings .
Etymologies
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tone + -eme.
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(Google for JediPad), a new musical system (www. toneme.org), a speech typer
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