Usually means: Distinctive pitch in spoken language.
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  1. toneme: Merriam-Webster
  2. toneme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. toneme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. toneme: Collins English Dictionary
  5. toneme: Wiktionary
  6. toneme: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. toneme: Dictionary.com
  8. Toneme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. toneme: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (linguistics) A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.

Similar:
moneme, thing, morphoneme, meane, morphemehood, monoseme, meter, measure, morphon, semeion, more...

Opposite:
nontonemic, atonality, non-tonal

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Similar:
moneme, thing, morphoneme, meane, morphemehood, monoseme, meter, measure, morphon, semeion, more...

Opposite:
nontonemic, atonality, non-tonal



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