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Thai language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Tibetan languages ). The official language of Thailand, Thai is spoken by...grammatical relationships. The Thai language is also tonal, and the tones serve to distinguish...French and English. The Thai language has its own alphabet, which ultimately...
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...quartet and symphony a fully mature classical tonal idiom, characterized externally by the four...thematic and motivic development within a balanced tonal framework. Haydn evolved a tonal language that exhibited a gradual growth toward contrapuntal...
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Marcel Landowski
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the time, within the tonal system. As he said...have to express, in the language which is given to us...dramatic expression and language are absolutely joined...relatively conservative tonal language. Landowski also wrote...
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Vietnamese
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Vietnamese remained the popular language. In the seventeenth century, missionaries transcribed the Vietnamese language into Roman letters (the letters...pronunciation and tone. Vietnamese is a tonal language, so that a change in tone alone...
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Yoruba
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...million. 3 • LANGUAGE The Yoruba language belongs to the Congo-Kordofanian language family. Yoruba has many dialects, but its...can all understand each other. Yoruba is a tonal language. The same combination of vowels and consonants...
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Achille Claude Debussy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...individual style and also created a language that broke definitively with the...structure analogous to the classical tonal structure and are governed by equally...his style and produced a new tonal language. The completion of this process...
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Mandinka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family and is spoken in Guinea...closely related to the Malinke language of West Africa. Its linguistic...ethnic identity. Mandinka is a tonal language in which changes in pitch are used...
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Thai
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...LANGUAGE Many dialects of the Thai language are spoken throughout the country...Standard Thai, is the official language of the schools and of government and business affairs. Thai is a tonal language, and its alphabet is derived from...
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Lao
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Thailand POPULATION: About 23 million LANGUAGE: Lao RELIGION: Theravada Buddhism...northeast Thailand. 3 • LANGUAGE Lao belongs to the Tai family of...Westerners to speak because it is a tonal language. There are six tones, and words...
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Hokkien Taiwanese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Identification. Hokkien Taiwanese speak a Southern Min language ( Nanminhua ), which they share with people...worldwide.) Nanminhua is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is a tonal language of eight tones distinct from Mandarin (four...
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