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Bantu languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...million in Kenya; Ganda, the language of 4 million in Uganda; Ruanda...Kinshasa); Rundi, the language of 6 million in Burundi and...Kinshasa); Kongo, the language of 4 million in Congo (Brazzaville...Kinshasa). All of the Bantu languages are tonal, except perhaps Swahili...
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Thai language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages ). The official language of Thailand, Thai...relationships. The Thai language is also tonal, and the tones serve...recently, from European languages such as French and...
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Sino-Tibetan languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...musical pitch. In an isolating language the words do not change their...relationships. A monosyllabic language has a limited number of syllables...number of tones differs in each language; three tones are found in...Chinese. Tibeto-Burman Languages The Tibeto-Burman ...
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Han
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...speakers of one or another of the languages usually known as Chinese...branch of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family. All are tonal languages and rely on word order rather...consider Chinese to be a single language consisting of a series of...
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accent
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...words within a sentence is optional. Tonal languages, such as Chinese and Swedish, have a...of sounds (quantity) is used in some languages to create systematic differences. No language uses all three types of accentual systems...
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Vietnamese
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Vietnamese remained the popular language. In the seventeenth century...transcribed the Vietnamese language into Roman letters (the letters...to write English and other languages). By the end of the nineteenth...and tone. Vietnamese is a tonal language, so that a change in tone...
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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
...most of the time, within the tonal system. As he said: "True...simply have to express, in the language which is given to us, what...music, dramatic expression and language are absolutely joined together...of a relatively conservative tonal language. Landowski also wrote...
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China
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...Mandarin Chinese is the official language. It is also called Putonghua...which replaced the classical language in the 1920s, is called bai...life. Unlike other modern languages, which use phonetic alphabets...characters. Chinese is a tonal language: words are differentiated...
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Yoruba
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...POPULATION: 5.3 million LANGUAGE: Yoruba RELIGION: Ancestral...bound together by a common language, history, and culture. Within...3 million. 3 • LANGUAGE The Yoruba language belongs...understand each other. Yoruba is a tonal language. The same combination...
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