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Thai language
Thai language , formerly Siamese, member of the Tai or Thai subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages ). The official language of Thailand, Thai is spoken by approximately 50 million people in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Yunnan province of China. It has several di... Read more
artificial languages
artificial languages languages that are invented by one or more human beings as opposed to languages that develop naturally among peoples. Examples of artificial languages are Volapük, Esperanto , and Ido . See international language . ... Read more
African languages
African languages geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks. It is estimated tha... Read more
Gaelic
Gaelic , or Goidelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Goidelic
Goidelic , or Gaelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Bantu languages
Bantu languages group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages ). Bantu contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in the Congo Basin, Angola, the Rep... Read more
Tibetan language
Tibetan language member of the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages ). It is spoken by 5 million people in the Tibet autonomous region and the Qinghai and Gansu provinces of China and in Bhutan, Nepal, the Indian state of Sikkim, and part of K... Read more
Iranian languages
Iranian languages group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
universal language
universal language a language intended to further communication and goodwill among peoples speaking different languages without necessarily replacing their native tongues. See international language . ... Read more
Hamitic languages
Hamitic languages subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages. See Afroasiatic languages . ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Tonal language"

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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

Dictionary entries related to "Tonal language"

tonal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...tone of music, color, or writing: his ear for tonal color the poem's tonal lapses. ∎  of or relating to...harmony. ∎  Phonet. (of a language) expressing semantic differences by varying the...
register
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...a sliding device controlling a set of organ pipes that share a tonal quality. ∎  a set of organ pipes so controlled. 3. Linguistics a variety of a language or a level of usage, as determined by degree of formality and choice...
Górecki, Henryk Mikołaj
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...and spiritual links through his music. His work became more tonal and melodic, less dissonant. This turn to a mellower sensibility...introducing contrasts of tempo, dynamics, and harmonic language that took him far away from Symphony no. 3. He builds on...

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Genes may play a part in learning "tonal languages", such as Chinese
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/29/2007; 617 words ; ...connection between language and genetic variation...differences in tonal languages can fundamentally...purpose than tonal languages. Chinese society...philosophy with a tonal language just as successfully...intricacy of non-tonal languages could ...
Words in code; Linguistics.(The genes for tonal languages)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/2/2007; 700+ words ; ...Ladd believe the evolution of tonal and non-tonal languages interacted with the evolution of these genes...Certain alleles could have predisposed people to a tonal-language structure. That tonal language, if used by individuals with whom...
The key to perfect pitch lies in tonal languages.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 5/20/2009; 526 words ; ...seems to be strongly linked to the language people speak. A 2006 study by psychologist...Cantonese and Vietnamese, is a tonal language in which the pitch of a spoken word...different levels of fluency in the tonal language learned from their parents...
The key to perfect pitch lies in tonal languages
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/7/2009; 441 words ; ...seems to be strongly linked to the language people speak. A 2006 study by psychologist...Cantonese and Vietnamese, is a tonal language in which the pitch of a spoken word...different levels of fluency in the tonal language learned from their parents...
Monteverdi's Tonal Language.
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...significance. Eric Chafe's Monteverdi's Tonal Language is thus only the latest in a long...S. Bach ("Key Structure and 'Tonal Allegory' in the Passions of J...Allegorical Music: The 'Symbolism' of Tonal Language in the Bach Canons," Journal...
Healing heritage: the tonal language of music
Magazine article from: Music Therapy Perspectives; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...1998). Healing heritage: the tonal language of music. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona...Nordoff. Healing Heritage: The Tonal Language of Music is a transcription...bringing the child experiences-tonal experiences-that he has not had...
Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach.
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...point of unity for them all." (P. 25) Chafe's tonal allegory is directional, not fixed; he states at the...recently published book on Monteverdi (Monteverdi's Tonal Language [New York: Schirmer Books, 1992!), and which form...
Letter: Tonal English
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/25/2000; ; 289 words ; ...university term in Manchester in 1997, he had acquired this swoop in his voice. He thought it might be something from TV - Friends, or Ally McBeal. Is English on the way to becoming a tonal language? MARY NORTH Wirksworth, Derbyshire
More of brain involved in processing pitch from language
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 2/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...processing pitch from language and other sounds...pitch patterns in tonal languages, we have found...speakers of the tonal language Mandarin...English, a non-tonal language. Most of the world languages are tone languages...
CULTURE-THAILAND: THAI LANGUAGE IN TROUBLE, SAY EXPERTS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 8/5/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Thai is the national language, spoken by over 80...to about 60 minority languages (such as those belonging...endangered. The Thai language has its origins in...Thai is a monosyllabic language made up of five tones...falling. As with all tonal languages, the meaning of a...