| NOUN | a tone | tones |
| VERB | to tone | toned | toned toning | tones |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- Die göttliche Vergänglichkeit des Tones = Divine Ephemerality of Tone [Lubo Kristek]
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- Modern Cantonese has up to seven phonemic tones. Cantonese Yale represents these tones using a combination of diacritics and the letter "h".
- Duvle and Sikaritai have only two tones, high and low, but all other Lakes Plain languages have more than two tones.
- There are basically six tones in Cantonese. Tones play an important role in distinguishing meanings. Tones also form melodies in poem and prose composition.
- Open syllables can occur in one of nine different tones, checked syllables in six tones (so-called entering tones), so that the traditional approach counts fifteen tones.
- Eastern Min varieties generally have seven tones, by the traditional count (based on the four tones of Middle Chinese, including the entering tone as a separate entity).
- In addition to the ordinary lexical tones which go with individual words, and the grammatical tones of verb tenses, other tones can be heard which show phrasing or indicate a question.
- The Yeniseian languages have been described as having up to four tones or no tones at all.
- Texmelucan Zapotec has four phonemic tones: high, falling, mid and low.
- Although some pairs of tones (such as tones 6 and 7b) have the same value when pronounced alone, they behave differently with regard to tone sandhi and should be treated as different phonologically.
- Falling tones tend to fall further than rising tones rise; high–low tones are common, whereas low–high tones are quite rare.
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