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Word: Toneme
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1920s: from tone, on the pattern of phoneme
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈtəʊniːm
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a phoneme distinguished from another only by its tone.
Short Definition:phoneme distinguished from another only by its tone
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