bahasa tonal
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of bahasa + *tonal, calque of English tonal language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bahasa tonal (first-person possessive bahasa tonalku, second-person possessive bahasa tonalmu, third-person possessive bahasa tonalnya)
- (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 Indonesia, 2016.