floating tones

A form of floating tone — A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of floating tone
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “floating tones,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floating%20tones.

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