"toneme" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtəʊniːm/ Forms: tonemes [plural]
Etymology: tone + -eme. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|tone|eme}} tone + -eme Head templates: {{en-noun}} toneme (plural tonemes)
  1. (linguistics) A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings. Wikipedia link: toneme Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings): тоне́ма (tonéma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), toneem [neuter] (Dutch), tonemo (Esperanto), toneemi (Finnish), tonème [masculine] (French), Tonem [neuter] (German), tonéma (Hungarian), tonema [masculine] (Italian), 音調素 (onchōso) (alt: おんちょうそ) (Japanese), tonem (Malay), tonelag [neuter] (Norwegian), tonem [neuter] (Norwegian), tonema [masculine] (Portuguese), тоне́ма (tonéma) [feminine] (Russian), tonema [masculine] (Spanish), tonem [neuter] (Swedish)

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