bahasa tonal
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of bahasa + *tonal, calque of English tonal language.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (linguistics) tonal language: languages which use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels
Further reading
[edit]- “bahasa tonal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.