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Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of bahasa + *tonal, calque of English tonal language.
Pronunciation
Noun
bahasa tonal (uncountable)
- (linguistics) tonal language: languages which use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels
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